The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1900-06-19

BR|TONS
Six Hundred Derby
shIres Missing.
RESULT OF A BOER RAID
President Kruger Near the Portu-
guese Border With Strong
Bodyguard,

LONDON. June li.--General Fores-
tier Walker sends this dispatch:
CAPE TOWN. Sunday. June lo.-Tbe
following telegram has been received
from Charles Knox:
"KRooNSTAD.-The following casu-
alties, reported from Stoneham, COM
mandlng the Imperial Yeomanry Hos
pital, dated Rhenoster river. June sth,
received here by flag of truce June 10th:
THE Fourth Battalion OF the Derby
shire Regiment (the Sherwood Forest
lers), killed, Lieutenant Baird Douglas
and Lieutenant Hawley. and fifteen OF
the rank and file. wounded-Coionel
Wilkinson. Captain Bailey, Lieutenants
Hall. Lawder and Blanchard, and fifty
nine of the rank and file: the Shrop-
shire Light Infantry, 1; Cape Pioneer
Railroad Regiment, z; Ammunition
Park Royal Marines and Imperial
Telegraphs, each: Postofiice Corps, l.
"Stoneham reports that many were
severely wounded, and tho remainder
of the Fourth Derbyshire a I'D details of
prisoners, except six OF the rank and
file, are in his camp. All the wounded
are In his camp, lately occupied by the
Fourth Derbyshre. Inquiries are be
Ing made az to the Names
Losses Six Hundred.
LONDON. June IL $3.50 n. m)-Fifty
thousand British troops are within half
n hundred miles of the marauding
Beers north OF Kroonstad, and they are
expected, of course, to make short work
of them. Nevertheless, outside of the
War OfliCG kilograms, no one knows
what is going on.
South of Kroonstad there Is Il wide
gap. The railway Is only partially de-
Tended and as General Kelly-K emmy
has hurried all the available troops
uorthward, the assumption is that there
is danger of n second raid. The loss OF
the Derbyshires is estimated at from
900 to 700 men.
a Reuter- dispatch from Maseru. dat
ed June 18th, S:S5 p. M, says: Fifteen
hundred Beers surrendered to General
Brabant today in the Ficksburg dis
trict."
Machadorp has been officially pro
claimed the capital of the TransvaaI.
a Lourenzo Marques dispatch says that
the village has swollen into n small
city, the majority of the inhabitants
living in tents
An official Boer telegram asserts that
the British have been defeated with
considerable loss at Donkerspoort, I'm
the southern extremity of the Free
state, or Orange river colony, ten miles
from Norval's Point. 1t was thought
that this district had been cleared OF
Beers and rebels long ago
The Beers still cling to Laing's Mex
hut General Buffers forces are still
working far around I'm that direction.
Lord Roberts has wired Cape Town
that prior to Wednesday he liberated
III officers and $500 of the rank and
file. The Beers consequently took Off
only 900.
Mr.. Schrcincr the Cape Premier. had
eight supporters out of forty at eau
Gus called to consider the Ministeriaf
]. \. Merrlman. Treas
urcr and j. w. Fauer, Commissioner of
Public Works, have resigned from the
Cabinet, and Mr.. Schrelner's own res
ignatlon Is believed to be imminent,
he may reconstruct the Min.
istry with the aid of the opposition, the.
British members. The Cabinet situa-
ton is so interesting that Sir Alfred
Miner Will postpone his trip north
ward.
Food Is still scarce at Mafeking. but
The railway Is nearly repaired. Seventy
two rebels have been arrested In tho
Vryburg and Mafeking districts. Sixty
Ave mon were marched into Mafeking
oy two of their late prisoners at Mos
la.
All of General Harrngtons force
anded at Bera n week ago The or
to invade the TransvaaIT
rom the north Is already far advanced
A Boer deserter who arrived at Ma
Ieru yesterday asserts that 1000 Beers
in the Rooekrant engage
nent; that General olivier was killed
md General de Villers mortally
Wounded.
The American young women who are
,ursing in the hospital at Ladybrand
rave been sighted by the Boer women
Who are nursing the Boer sick in the
anne hospital and have been made the
bject Of unpleasant remarks. because
he Americans are nursing the English.
VENTERSDORP June 1.-Two hun
red and fifty Beers have surrendered
o General Hunter and the remainder
n this district have promised to give
~ their arms.
Krueger's Big Bodyguard.
LONDON, June 12.-The Lourenzo.
Iarques correspondent of the Times"
avs; AT Machadodorp President
irueger has body guard of 1000
urghers Stores are being moved as
uckly as possible from that point to
.ydenburg The Portuguese authori-
les sent a further body OF troops to the
order today"
The list OF delinquent shareholders OF
he Awini Coffee, Fruit and Stock Co.
I Mahukona appears In this Issue. ALI