... TROOPS. We have received the following from the War ollice :-Commnnuications for corps serving in South Africa should, in additiona to the name of the regiment, bear the address, l'ield Force, Sonth Africa. Messrs. Neale and Wilkinson ask us to announce ...

... -Prisoner surrendered to his recognisauces, which Mr. Corser bad allowed, contrary to the usual practice with aeserters, whilst the War office was being communicated with, and an escort of the Black Watch was now in attendance to take charge of the prisoner and ...

... troops on the borders of the REoublic while friendly negotiations are in proaress, and diseclaiming responsc- bility in case war should result. A' further resolution was passed expressive of the hope that the Governmeat would act according to circumstances ...

... as Assistant Military secretary to Lieut.- general Sir Arthur Conynghame during the Kaffir war of 1878, was employed on special service throughout the Zulu war of 1879, and commanded the troops in GENERAL Sir F. FORESTIER-WAL12ER. Egypt in 1895. The gallant ...

... south Africe. ?? shoeng smiths, with Staff-cor- poral-farrier Lewis, of the 2nd Life Guards, leit England yesterday for South Africa. Two of these were detailed trom I the let Life Guards, four from the Royal i Horso Guards (the Blues), and the others from ...

... with ignominy. WAR OFFICE BLUNDERS. At Warwick, on Friday, John Seeley, w}.o was arrested at Warwick for desert- ing from the Liverpool regimestt at Wyn- ber I, Yonth Africa, was released at the requezt of the beetetary of State for War, who adwitted that ...

... he talking of going to war over a ques- tion whirli ought and could be settled by arbitration. furthermore, they had be- fore them the spectacle of a Government which refused womnen the franchise in E~ngland preparing to go to war to en- force thefranehise ...

... greatly incensed at the action of the Portsgguese authorities at Delagoa bay in stopping Transvaal Government muni- tions of war, contrary to the convention between the South African republic and Portugal. It is reported that President Kr-ge-rand GeneralJoubert ...

... officer, Captain Paul Voulet, be- longs to the 'marines; Captain Cbanoine, who is a son of General Chanoine, ex. Minister of War, belongs to a Soudarese Spahi regiment. They were both deco- rated for the part they played in bring. ing the rich countries ...

... in re- gard to the war in South Africa he might tell them there never was a more unitedI Cabinet. There were a large number of people who were not only impatient, but very much disappointed, because more decisive results in this war had not been obtained ...

... Gun wharf at Portsmouth. He wee adopted by the regiment in South Africa, and everywhere the regiment went sBilly went too, following hie soldier masters right through the Matabele war and being several times nuder fire. The goat, how- ever, escaped being ...

... uninjured. Elizabeth Hazlett, 51, of 21, Under- Wvood-s7t-reet, Shepherdess-walk, was going to the War office to make inquiries about her soldier son in South Africa! i yesterday, when she fell fronm the root, of a 'bus ?? house. Shewas takento St. Bartholomew's ...