... During his enforced sojourln in Pretoria, Mr. Winston Churchill obtained from officers who were taken prisoners at i\'ickolson's Nek an account of that unfortunate affair on1 October 30. HIe tells the story this morning iu a telegram to the .lo, )inA1 I'os. It will be remembered that Colonel Carleton, Avith '1,1.00 nien ot the (';loicester Regiment and the Irish Fusiliers anld a mountain ...

... FOURTH DITION. i1 THE BOER REVOLT. THE RECAPTURE OF COLESBERG. GENERAL FRENCH'S STRATEGY. BOER STORES IN OUR HANDS. General French's rout of the enemy north of Arundel and his recapture of Colesberg appears to have been clue to a brilliant strategical movement, Vur forces getting round the Boer position. The correspondent of the ;Yaihl Mcd telegraphing an account of the affair from Rensbnrg, ...

... nE HOLDING OF KIMBERLEY. AN IMPREGNABLE POSITION. ,DE BEERS AND THE DEFENCES. FOREWARNED AND FOREARMED. WLHY GUNS WERE HELD BACK. STRONG FEELING AGAINST SCHIREINER , ROM OUB cORmPONDENT,) QUfiNSTOWN, Dec. 9. The inhabitants of Kimberley have been doing all in their power to ease the pressure on thu relief column. From tho instant that they 13(ecdnle aware of Lord Mothuen's approach they ...

... ; TIE WOFS OF WILTS1 E lI I TO THlE HDrTR OF THE DAILY NEWS. Bir,-I trunt you will afford me. P short opaw in which to protoat against the blur which your peoin Correspundont, in liii article, No Rooma' to Liele' i% [Thursday'* iisusa, cast~s upun this nighbourhood. I do not d.,iht that his insltances of oa uroudixtg aro as otateld. iar b.o it from muw a too jutiftty ?? or exculeo beta. I do ...

... METOROLOGICAL I DAILY N'W? orPI } WKALANGS THIS KIou G BY : CIUTY A-VD ZANflI11'S BAROBTER. Consdad to ?? ansd redewed to 32 deg. P. TSbbal~bas datba beigt of tba, at 2. ?? thrai su 1eaa pera T be StbfN tadesha aea ~vsrusaw dumeng ya.,di &ad sho tn~~~edu i o ihedirmtb of .n wind. Tbe Memory *b t'o Rain. wftb $W.. S E. and W. wimab-U f6=4or baea' abortme; if xim]x. for- coobtaew bd oofta -.0 ...

... AT MODDER RIYEI lu- i A CHRISTMAS TRUCE THE QUEEN'S MESSAGE BOER GUN SILENCED. ENEMY'S WATER SUPPLY. NAVAL GUN FINDS THlE RANGE. QUARRELS AMONG TEE ENEMY. From General of Comunnimnons, Capetown, to Secrtary of State for War. Deo 30. No. 1046 Bombardier Robert Gould, 21134 Gunner Robert Duneanson, 340 Boy John Peter- son, all of 18th Battery Field Artillery, missing from Modder River. It is ...

... The Moral of GoeremJ Frewcb' Uovemezat. GzERAL FoXrays sucms at Colesberg seems to have been a thoroughly soldier-like piece ?? L - . - . of work. He had been -keping the enemy on the move for some days, and on Sunday night succeeded in working round his right Bank. The Boers finding themselves in danger of having their retreat cut off, are reported to have fled forthwith, and General French ...

... THE BOERS AT TE TUGELA. I FOI5MING A NEW CAMP. THEIR CONFIDENCE FRERE CAMP, Sunday Evening. Our msoats have -learned that the Boers are making important alterations in their plans for the defence of the Tngela River. Yesterday they brought in the news of tho formation of a new camp to tha west.. A caravn-n of tbirty- one waggons was seen descending front the plateau b.yond the river into a ...

... PAIESTUM UNFISITED. AT PaestUm in Southern Italy are the remains of three Greek temples. The Italian Government has found in them the niaterial for a monumental jest. To see these temples visitors come from all parts of the world. Americans are very ill in the Atlantic, and Englishmen equally ill in the Channel, in tlfe determination to visit them. Thousands perform the pilgrimage every year, ...

... mm VA4 VAKIf oi(jtttt offirt, 18, CHARING CROSS. ROAD, W.C.. Lord Baot and Lieutenant-Colonel Lord William Cecil will to-day succeed the Earl of Denbigh and. Admiral of the Fleet Sir Edmund Conmerell, V.C., as tlbe.Lord and Groom in Waiting on the Queen. Lord Denbigh has been: doing duty for. the Earl of Kintore in the place 6f Viscount Bridport, who was the Lord next in waiting, and Sir ...

... n`C'XLkN' AND HIU=ATIO'.TN. I IL 1OSITIYIrST YELSTVAL. ADDRESS By MR. FREDERIO HARRISON. X -erda nav i2 ma-red in tho Positivis Calender Th' Vow s vstvai of Hunmanity. It was, howepra,. Is: a ?? festival als Ceobrated by the annual-n a.:- S nle-vt_ Idtm oevomig bqy Mr. Frederio Uarrison. 'S l al, in b'ltur-do-lis-enurtu FOtter- ?? discourso might apprtopriately have A ?? \ ?? :5 .-.'rn1:ttL ...

... I [BY A CAPE COLONIST.] AMONG the various items that will make our war bill run up there is none that will be greater than the account for horses and mules, together with their keep. The question is: Are we adopting in this particular department of the-war expenditure the cheapest and most economical methods ? We see occasional notices in the newspapers that so many hundreds of mules have been ...