... The War Office last night issued the aes 10 S26 Field Porce. fourtee: vere killed, 39 were wounded, one wounds, and six missing or prise ul 9. the same 1528 men we ey of Whom oe teven missing or prisovers. Total, Since the commencement of the war Teduction ...

... RET ED SOLDIERS AND REFRESHMENTS. The War Office last iesued the follow. ing “« Ta consequence of «desire expressed for some suitable arrangement by which the public can provide eeldiers returning from the front with rofreahmente other than alcholic liquors ...

... the British im Africa, which has jest been imued in is not merely a tribute to the lunvery of tho British it is alee Vindication. Of late many wild end eharges have been leveled at the soldiers of the Army in Africa, Every vieo ond which war is expposed ...

... tubeeqneatly at the Town Hall, mud note bad boon placed in bit hands asking why was not still in South Africa. He wan sorry not there, but the War Office thought, having been in the army years, the work for younger men. ...

... NOTES OF THE WEEK. Whether Sir Alfred Milner is to return to South Africa or to remain at home as Lord Milner of Cape Town is question circumstances. With early termination of the war he might easily go back and even take up his headquarters tor a time ...

... by the assistance wart on the anu com- had been acknowledged by the Nether- MOUNTED TROOPS in SOUTH AFRICA. Captain NORTON asked the Secretary for War how many effective mouated men Lord Kitchener had at his disposal, and his official showed that his ...

... many years senior chaplain tothe forces in Dublin, and who, at the outbreak of the South African war was appointed as principal chaplaia in South Africa. He has now, we learn, been appointed honorary to His Majesty, his being the first appointment to ...

... expression of bi Suter- that umght begin as soon iu order that we might get the war o a sia for | tue month of November, 1899. We desired ta hare the censtr~e with wa Africa, lieved the country was out ready fo ‘ (he mouths of June aad July, of the has ...

... the national charac- teristics of the Scottish race and their spirit of patriotism to the Empire. His war Highness afterwards p been in South Africa. medals, including one to a nurse who had ...

... Cornmwa!! who wa ure inp panied by the Duchess, to-day dy ty the iew of several thonsand trasps, ye) the which have retar Seath Africa. Their Moyal Hi lad to were warmly cheered by a large « » Wor- of spectators, who had assemble d sent ness the military spectacle ...

... Smith-Dorrien, who had command uf the 19th Krigade in Sovih Africa, and has since been appuinted Adjutant-General in India. Tne General, who lueked in the best of health, said be thought the war would io the He | ceded to ...

... Harry Yelverton, who was in command of the several years. He served during the Russian War in the Baltic on board the of the was also trade on West Coast of Africa. retirement in 1885, he sequent to bis Chief Purser in the Navy. Deceased, who bad reached ...