STEYN AND DE LA REY.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 380, 3 April 1902, Page 2

STEYN AND DE LA REY.

WESSELS IN PARIS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, April 2. It is reported in Pretoria that Stoyn is with De la Rey. Wessels, interviewed in Raris, implied that tho Boers are willing to abandon the Rand if allowed to retain the rest of the country with the management of their internal affairs. One hundred and fifty Boer trekkors in Namagualand have been compelled to submit to conscription.

39 MEN KILLED AND 45 INJURED.

RESULT OF RAILWAY ACCIDENT. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, April 2. By' a railway accident to a military train at Barberton on the 30th March, thirty-nine were killed and forty-five injured. The second battalion of Harnpshires had twenty killed and eleven injured ; tho Fourth Hampshires live killed and two injured; the volunteer company of Hampshires eight killed aud twenty-seven injured. The Fourth East Surreys, Fifth Leinsters, and Second East Kent regiments also suffered.

DEATH OF A NAPIER SOLDIER. By Telegraph—Press Association. Napier, last night. The Mayor received a telegram this evening, stating that his nephew, Sydney Northe, had died in South Africa on February 16th of enteric fover. Northe was a member of tho First Now Zealand Contingent, and returned to tho colony with "Lieut. Hughes, afterwards going again to South Africa.