The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1900-02-02
CEN, BULLER FAILS TO
PRESS BACK THE DOERS


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ionFef 10 ihc Consular service. h8s r,.
ceivrd no Instructions from thr Gog
wnmeui regulating Die attitude toward
newapaptr Corr0 pOndents when
prcassd by inquiries ne said.
= nm still IN the United States CoH-
sular service. J certainly have rccrIy.i
M iutimatlon 10 The contrary
when urged 10 give more explicit m-
formation AZ to tho nature OF his In-
structions. and TO say from whom hey
emanated, Mr., Macrum finally admit
ted that he had received no such in-
structions from Washington. but said
that under the circumstances, silence
Is dictated to me by common sense"
lie said that an funds received at
the United States Consulate at Pre-
toria up to the time OF his departure.
which had been sent from London TO
British prisoners. had been distributed
10 them. When he was asked why, as
suming that his mission TO Washing
ton was of such urgency he did not take
passage on the North German Lloyd IL
ner Saale, which will leave Southamp-
ton on Wednesday evening, instead uf
waiting until Saturday to sail on The
St Paul from Cherbourg Mr.. Macrum
replied that coming from the hot Afri-
can climate, he wished to get warm
winter clothes for himself and his
family before going to New York.
He wears a miniature South African
Republic flag in his buttonhole, and
still maintains a Sphinxlike silence in
regard to the reasons for his repeated
requests to be relieved of his duties at
Pretoria II is obvious that If Mr.. Ma
crum really has any extraordinary mes
sage for President Mckinley slch
message has already been cabled in
State Department cipher from the En-.
bassy at Rome or Paris
Snlping at Kimberley.
KIMBERLEY, Tuesday, Jan. 23. .-
(Afternoon Service )-The lombard
ments have ceased. but the Beers arc
perpetually engaged in sniping Long
Cecil Is doing excellent work and Ce-
Gil Rhodes has personally fired several
shells from the gun.
The Robinson Mine.
NEW YORK, Jan. "a (Afternoon Ser
vice, A despatch to the Herald from
Brussels says: The Pedt Bleu pub
fishes the official report of the state en-
gineer on the situation OF the Robinson
mine:
Wnen the Transvaal Government
took possession of the mine the shops
contained almost nothing of E24,62S
t$l23, l40) of mineral entered on the
books. Provisions estimated at 4 61,-
659 ($3OS,l95) were found to be worth
$a0, $3.50.
II will be two years before the mine
can be worked again
a ae working stock is worn out, water
has entered the mine and Is three feet
deep. as the pumps could not be util-
lied.
once the beginning of the war to
that battle of Colenso, the Beers say
they have lost 2l2 killed, 6S2 wounded,
eight of whom have recovered, and 200
prisoners.
Carrington's Assignment.
NEW DIRK, Jan. "a (Afternoon Ser
yice).-A despatch to the World from
Belfast says: The mystery surround
ing MajorGeneral Sir Frederick Car
rIngton's release from his command in
this district, accompanied by an un-
official statement that he was going to
South 4.frica, Is now solved. Hereto
fore, for reasons best known to them
selves, the war Office officials have re-
fused to assign General Darlington to
any command in South Africa, despite
his long experience with British troops
in that country
Now II Is known that Cecil Rhodes
and the Chartered Company have re-
ceived permission to raise equip and
put In the field force of irreguars,
and the war Office has loaned General
Carrington to the South African mil
iionaires to command this force. No
one can tell what the strength of this
force will be or where 1t will be oper-
ated.
Neither will the friends Of General
Darlington here say whether there will
be native contingent with 1t.
An Anxious Situation.
LONDON, Jan. "a (2:45 p. m.).-The
extreme tension caused by what may
be justly designated the most anxious
pause since the war began had not been
relieved up TO the time of writing by
anything save the daily stock exchange
rumors which today happens to have
been started by the bulls, who assert
that General Warren has captured
Spionkopf. Anxiety in regard to the
news Is visible on all sides. The War
Office was besieged at an early hour
this morning and the clubs and other
resorts liable TO receive early news
have been crowded with eager in
quirers.
1t Is generally recognized that the
Boer posi,.on, If ever taken, can onl!
be captured at a tremendous cost.
A despatch from Pretoria dated
tuesday, January %, somewhat ampli-
fies the despatch of Monday, Januarr
22, from the Boer head laager, cabled to
the Associated Press last evening. II
says:
-Four or five times during the day
the British replaced their wearled SOL
diers by fresh ones. The Boer casual
ties 10 date are one man killed and two