... LONDON LETTER. (FROM LONDON CORRESPONDENT.) The Constitutional Wednesday. The interest the war the two wars, South Africa has been almost entirely eclipsed the strange and stirring scenes at present being enacted in China. In the first place the rising ...

... The War. Next in importance to the death of the late Queen has, ot course, been the war, which etsll drags itself wearily along. So far as Aylesbury and the county generally are concerned, the principal event connected with the war has been the return ...

... tell you this is going tobe astiff war. They have got the same a3 we have ourselves, near, and ti take some shifting out of the rocks. . In the first fight we had you could not see anything arms flying think the war is very They are white men like ourselves; ...

... progress of our arms in Sonth Africa, in the troublesome little war in Ashanti, and the mysterious, bnt certainly terrible, events which are ocrarring in the Far East. The Boer War is by no means over. Our great and splendid army or it is perhaps more ...

... The War. The Duke of Connaught has prerse to he allowed to go to the front, but the Government lerrmed it inexpedient to assent to the request. His Royal Highness, waiving all considerations of rank, thereupon offered his services to Lord Roberts as a ...

... Wesleyan Conference, writes—“If you bad | lived in South Africa all these years you would | realise how absolutely inevitable this war was. For years the Dutch had been scheming to seize South | Africa and make one Dutch Republic. For twenty | years I have ...

... Livingstone, left England for place in the heart ot Africa, south Lake Nyassa. Magomo. But before twelve months had passed they were compelled by fever, famine, and by tribal wars to forsake Central Africa ami settle in the far off Island of Zanzibar. It ...

... Parliament and the War. The sixth Session of the fourteenth Parliament of her Majesty was opened by Royal Commission. In the Queen's Speech it was explained that the state of affairs in South Africa mule it expedient that the Government should strengthen ...

... he y would be able to render valuable service in South Africa. SOUTH AFRICA AGAINST ANY CHANGE IN THE HOME GOVERNMENT. A Times Cape Town telegram says that the English popniation of South Africa would look upon any change of ment at home as a disaster ...

... at Volksrast. lieneral Botha is reported to be returning east• ward to attack Lydenburg. The War Offic e states that the return of troops from South Africa will depend entirely on military exigencies. Every endeavour will be made, how. ever, to bring ...

... YEOMANRY, Ac. The Secretary of State has notified that, in view of the prolongation of the war, it bas been decided that all Imperial Yeomanry in Sooth Africa wbo have served one year from date of attestation shall be thereafter paid at the s*. rate given ...

... Transvaal War. General Clery, after an engagement lasting three days, has driven the Boers oat of the positions they held near the railway between Standerton and Greylingatad. lord Roberta reports a determined attack by the Boers on positions held by ...