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Don’t Neglect Your Watch

L* you allow you watch to run too long without cleaning, or with damag ed parts it may be worn so badly as to distroy its usefulness asa timepiece; better have it examined by your Watch Doctor and if in need of re— pairs he will advise you accordingly and perhaps save your watch.

WE BOAST on our repair depart- ment turning out f rst-class work only. WE GUARANTEE AL). OUR WORK; if you have not given us atrial it will pay jou to do so and we will be pleased to se2 you at GrRrat (JEORGE STREET.

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| THE CAPTURE OF CRONJE.

| For aconcise and graphic summavy, ‘by a man on the spot, of the move-

ments which led to the coralling of | Cronje, Provost Battersby’s letter from Paardeberg to the London Morning Post is probably unequalled. Under | date of February 24 he writes :

“After the pathetic futilities and ten- tative half measures of this war, it is a mental relief to be confronted by a strategy boldly conceived and execut- }ed unflinchingly, | “Cronje, lying in insolent security across the hopes of Kimberley, heard

that an army had broken at five points into the state and was moving no one whither. General French swept

with his cavalry and his

knew

. . . the adrift LOC Qriits

guns and other portions of this army

loomed up to hold them. The seventh

division filled the upper ford of the

Riet, the sixth laid its grip on the] lower.

“Then during snccessive ni unseen arm was extended between the rivers and the Modder was seized.

“Cronje saw in the swiftness and daring of the hands which had en compassed him that he was playing at last with a master in the game of war and with a resolution as swift as it was sound , flung over the hopes on which

“Despite that wonderful march from his rear guard was} Kraal Drift on the

beautifully handled shake off the troops which had come upon him tired enough, hungry enough, but as eager for battle as he was to evade it. They hung to his flanks for two nights and a day, and on the next Cronje found a foe in front of him as well, for 1y’s rest for the hard

struck at Klip Modder, and a

with scarcely a d

! which every able-bodied

of Kimberley and stood between him and home.

“Behind, his enemy was growing layed him ; in front was the very force he could have no hopes to elude, a force of mounted men and mounted guns, equal to his own in mobility, su- perior in effectiveness.

“Cronje and his force sank sudden- ly into the river bed, sank as complete- ly out of sight as though they had risen into the sky and there at this mo- ment they are like a rat in the hole, snarling, spitting but immovable.

An attempt” he writes, “was made on Sunday to drag the rat into day- light, an attempt which lasted for 12 hours and which left the marks of the rat’s teeth on every regiment which tried to draw him. Since then he has been very severely left alone. Left alone would probably not express attitude from the Boer point of view, for he has been subjected to every sort of agony which the artillerist has in- vented.

“There must be a horrible and de- termined hate to keep the hearts of

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undisciplined men in such _ resolute accord.” Mr. Battersby’s testimony to the

personal ability of Lord Roberts is borne out by all the correspondents. This does away with the idea heid by many in England that Genera] Kitchen- er was really doing the work. Lord Roberts appears to be commander-in chief not only in name, but in every respect, in fact more so than many generals whose names have been hand- ed down in history.

RHODES AT KIMBERLEY.

According to Mrs Rochtort Maguire, Mr. Rhodes went to Kimberley, _ be- cause woen he saw war was imminen the thought of the interests of the enor- mous body of shareholders, and of the danger in which Kimberley would be placed. ‘‘It is very largely due to his

generosity and untiring labours that Kimberley held out so long. He rose

at 5.30 each morning, and every hour lay was occupied in ceaseless

of the d work forthe benefit of those around

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him. He organised great relief works, including the making of roads, by man could earn enough for a living. He paid full wages to 2,000 white men employed in the De Beers mines during the whole siege, although the mines were not working. At the suggestion of Col. Kekewich he made a very large vege- table garden of thirty acres in his model village of Kenilworth to supply the inhabitants with fresh vegetables. This came into working order before the end of the ; He organised a mounted force of 800 men, and him- self bought a gteat number of their

lieve Vat.

horses ;and in December instituted a

system of native runners and scouts, by which we got inforination of the enemy. He placed hisherd of 2,600 cattle at the disposal of the people, and by the end of December they had all been killed for food. Had it not been for the De Beers Company we should have had no water, as, with their coal supply, they pumped water for the town out of the Premier mine.”

t is annouced that President Kru- ger of the Transvaal Republic has an- nulled the Belgian railway concessions in that country. Much Belgian capital is invested inthese concessions and grave commercial complication are likely to follow.

Rumors are current at Capetown that there is an insufficiency of doctors and nurses on the prison transports, upon which an epidemic of typhoid fever is raging. Many civilian doctors and nurses are willing to offer their ser- vices in order to prevent any possibile scandal. It is the general belief that plenty of doctors and nurses should be supplied to the transports, as there are 1 number of influential Boers aboard

of them, and unless they are treated as |

weil as possible a bad impression may | be created.

Trooper Morris, belonging to the Australian contingent on service in South Africa, has been commended for the Victoria Cross for rescuing an officer while under fire. Morris is the first Australian to receive this coveted

THE DObiMtUN ulennwiENT NOME, At Elkhorn, Manitoba, ios Found Japaue s¢ Catarch Cure the Cuiy Resi Cuce for

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Mr. A. FE. Wilson, Principal Government fuidian Home, Elkhorn, Jianitoba, writes :

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It certainly is an article of unequalt- Dou't go on experimenting with

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FOR SALE OR meena ty

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decoration, which carries with it an annual pension of £10 from the British government. He will also | receive £52 annually for life, this sum | having been offered by an Australian { insurance company to the first Austral- lan winning the Victoria Cross.

Letters from the Canadian regiment state that when it went into action at Paardeberg it was only about 800 strong, about a hundred men having been kept on duty in Cape Town or on the line of communication, and an- other hundred having been incapacitat- ed by sickness. Thus the loss of 80 killed or wounded in the first fight meant precisely one man in every ten, which was bringing things pretty well home to the regiment. As forty more fell in the final attack on Cronje’s trenches a few days later, the regiment stood only 660 strong at the front when Cronje surrendered.

An interesting relic of the siege of Ladysmith has just been placed on ex- hibition in the Musuem of the Royal United Service Institution in White- hall England. This consists of a diminucive letter which was written in the town by a trooper in the Natal

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Carbineers and carried out by a native runner. ‘The messenger was captured by the Boers, and whilst they were in the act of interrogating him he conceal- ed the tiny missive in one of his nostrils, and, being released, was en- abied to deliver it to the addressee, ‘Captain A. N. Montogomery, Magis- trate, Natal.” The letter is about an inch and a quarter in length, and has been folded severai times over, in or- der that it might be contained in the smallest possible compass.

The Liverpool Post says that a firm in Liverpool, being delighted at the idea that one ofits employes was called upon to join the reserves, at once vo.unteered to pay half his wages to his wife in his absence. At the end

of the month the woman appeared, and

the moiety was at once given her.

‘“ What ?” she said. “ Four pounds?”

“Yes,” replied the senior partner, “that is exactly half: sorry you are not satisfied.” .

“Tt isn’t that I’m not. satisfied. Why, for years he has told me he only got 16 shillings altogether, and—and —if the Boers don’t kill him I will.

Lord Roberts is making extensive

that we have now the largest and best stock of stylish and elegant hats and caps ever shown in tbis city, and if you find it hard to suit yourself with a bat or a cap then

try the “‘Model Store” where “you always get the best.”

We area little later than usual in openi: g

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arrangements to police and safeguard all the Free State towns in the territory occupied. Despatches from Maseru assert that the Boers who returned to Ladybrand from Clocolan have taken up strong positions and sent pickets far in every direction to watch Basuto- land, in the expectation that part of General Buller’'s army will invade the Free State on that side.

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