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LONDON HOUSE g : i wee VaR ee ee ISLAND, MONDAY JANUARY 8 1900 ea I NO 6 Seventy Prisoners Lost in Retiring. Boers Attack Lady- smith Ne ee BUT ARE DRIVEN BACK AT THE BAYONET POINT ee Boers Report Kuruman Talen. ‘An Eighth Division to be sent to South Africa— Regulars to be withdrawn from Gibraltar and Malta and Militia Garrigons to be sent—People in England one? a to assist Ladysmit y aroused—Bulier unable —Séizure on the Thames of Steamers laden with war material—This will be a critical week. Cena ee mama SpecraL DespaTcH A SHORT REVIEW, Lonpoy, Jan. 8.—British public opin- jon is at last face to face with the eritical moment inthe campaign. It may safely be said that at no time has there been such avxious hours of suspense as will be passed until the arrival of further news regarding the fate of Ladysmith. The week opens with ouly freeh addi- | tions tothe disasters that have befallen the British arms. There is no longar any suetsining confidence to buoy public opinion. Theeditorials of this morning fully reflect the extreme gravity of the situation with a painful uadercurrent of ominous forbodiog, mainly caused by the fact that while the Boers have now chang- TO THE EXAMINER. 6, 7.20 p. m. says: “ General White heliographe that he defeated the Boers this morning. They crept up close to the de fending force. The Gordou Highlandera and Man- chesters repuised them at the point of the bayonet.” AN ACCIDENT. Lonvon, Jan. 7:—The War Office pub- lishes the fo!lowing despatch from General Foristier-Walker, commanding at Cape Town: General French reports under date of January 6th: “ The situation is much the same as yesterday. I ragret to report that a serious accid en; happened the 1st battalion of the Suffolk regiment, Four companies of the Ils ed their tactics and assumed the offensive General Boller is apparently unable to do more to assiat General White than mak- ing @ demonstration. The War Office has already decided upon immediate steps for sending an eighth iofantry division to Sovth Africa. Some of the regiments of this division will be taken from Gibralter and Malta, They will be replaced by the militia. d ON THE THAMES, Ttia asserted that the customs authori- ties onthe river Thames have detained two outgoing steamers and eeized tro large guas and six maxims, packed: in piano cases intended for the Transvual. It iealso said that a quantity of food stuffs on another veese! has been seized. AT LADYSMITH. Lowpoy, Jan. 8.-~A special despatch from Frere Camp, dated Saturday,January We carry & full line of the above. One and three tipped. Prices runuing 40c upwardse—For Catarrbal trouble, Nose er Throat they sre of great assietance. A pleasure to show you ourstock. A. W. REDDIN, Phm, B Central Drugstore, Suanyeide. battalion advanced by night againet Lowt- hill, one mile from camp, and attacked at dawn. Lieut.-Col. Wateon, commanding, gaveorders to charge. He was wounded, aod the order for retirement was given, sthreeequariers of the force retreated. to camp. The remainder held their ground -watil overpowered. The greater number then surrendered, | Seventy were taken prisoners, including seven Officers. General-French reports that the Boer commando made an attack on January 4th, and lost $9 killed besides wounded acd prisoners. The commando dispersed. ANOTHER ACCOUNT. .. Lowdown, Jan. 8.—General French res ports serious accident tothe let Suffolk regiment. Four companies of the regi- ment attacked the Boer position. Lieut.- Colonel Weston, in command, was wound« ed, and a retreat wan ordered. Three- quarters of the British reached camp, but the others were overpowered and compell- ed to surrender, and seventy were taken prisoners, including s¢ven officers. BRITISH OUTPOST TAKEN. Pretoria, via.Loreazo Marques, Jan, 8.—Field Cornet. Visser, under date Tuerday, Jan. 2nd, reports the foliowing from Kurunen, British Bechuanaland : “Commenced bombardment of Kuruman yesterday, (Monday) morning, aimiog at the police barracks. The fight iasted unt'l six in the eventing when the garrison sur- rendered, issuing from the forts and yield- ing up the arms. Took 120 prisoners, in- cluding Capt. Bates and Capt. Denpison, also captured 70 natives together with a number of rifles and revolvers, and a quan- tity of ammunition. Fifteen British are wounded. They sre being attended by us, with help of Dr. Bearne, the English physician.” ha Horses, oxen, mealis3 and flour, taken from prisoners have been sent to Pretoria by way of Vryburg.” POPE OFFERS MEDIATION. Paris. Jan 8.—The Journal states that the Pope bas charged Cerdins! Vaughan, to offer to mediate between Great Britain and the Transvaal. Another German Steamsbip. (Speciat To THe Examiner. ] Loyxpoy, Dec, 8.—The British warship Thetis has reported her arrival at Durban with the German liner Herzog in tow. The latter vessel according to a Brussels telegram was conveying German, Dituch and Belgium ambulances for the Boers. MAY FORCE MANY OUT. New York Officials View With Alarm Spread of Trusts. New Yorx, Jan. 6.—The New York Times, in ac article headed “Are Our State Banks Doomed,” says :-— ‘““Officers‘of our state banks, xs distins guiched fram the natonal banks in the state, are viewing with some alarm the prospect of continued competition from trast companies inthe banking field, if nothing is done to be to equalize the con- ditions under which the two classes of in- stitutions operate.” After quoiting figures from the report ot the superintendent of Si:aie Banking Department as to the multiplication of trast compacies and the diminishment of the capital of state banks, the article ceatinues :— ‘It ig said that if this goee on the emaller aud weaker banks are likely to go to the wall or be merged and the survivors will have to be converted into national bavke or be reorganized as trust com- panies, and there will be little encourage ment for goiag into the national syetem so Jong as the discrimiowtion in taxation ie kept up. There are men who believe that the ducted altogether under state authority, but it i¢ becoming # question here whether the trust company is not to be the one state finavcial institution that can keep up that busineas under the laws of New York.” Study of Cancer. Cauesipes, Mass., Jan. 6.—Ii is ans nounced at Harvard tha: in all prebabil- ity the $100,000 bequest by the will of Mre, Caroline Brome Crof: to the uni- versity, will be used fur the stady of cancer. JANUARY MAGAZINES Nuw that our great holiday rush is over, we shall continue to supply the READING PUBLIc with the latest and best Magazines and Books.. — Hillyard, Magistrate, and other officers, [ Aise all the best news- papers of AMERICA hav- the latest War News, &c.,&c. Prompt atten- tion to all, is our motto for 1900. GEO. CARTER & (0. : , Bovksellers & Stationers. nking business should be con- ’ FRENCH ENCOUNTERS A SLIGHT { { f REVERSE. Somewhat Mixed. Loxpor, Jan. 6.—Henre Labouchere bas writteu a letter to a constituent, in which he says: “I beliewe the war to be jast, but impolisic. We are obliged to fight so longasthe Tranevaslers are im British territory, but when they are driven out of it, I trust we shall not eon- tinue the war for the benefit of the crew of company mongers and speculators. Our men have fought bravely, but had it not been forthe folly of our rulers rashing into war without counting the require- ments needed to win, Transvaalers would by this time have been forced to evacuate our territory.” Austria’s Army and Navy. Buda Pest, Jan. 6,—The Pest Hirlap saye that the Austro-Hungarian Govera- ment intends spending £20,000,000 im- mediately for increasing the army and navy, ia comsequence of the grave Euro-~ pean situation. The Government, accord- ing to the same authbority,will also propose to the Austrian and Hungarian parlia- ments an increase of the annual grant for defensive purposes. ae The Dewey Arch. 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