By ee bo _ mm ee cerns ane tr | i ‘i ¥ 2 oP ‘senate Read — Reom | OLTAWA 4 This is True Liberty, when Free 3 wn Mon having to advise the Public, m ay speak free.” —Everipipas DAILY EXAMINE A —— “ 34 e y 2 Ve a ' . km % a ’ . we > \ ‘i ny, / r ~ mar A. i a oe YO Fa oy a Zs \ \ i Cer See Witte ry a SS Hundreds of pretty Sailor hats. : Hundreds of hats. untrimmed Thursday Evening 7.30 to 9.00 The biggest stock of child- ren’s millinery you ever saw. Will be some of the attrac- tions on Thursday evening. But most worthy of ail will be a splendid exhibit of new millinery designs by our Miss Emma Toombs. This will surpass in extent as well as quality and elegance anything we have ever here- tolore shown, Come early as possibie. Doers open at 7.30. ’ MOORE & ~ WALESD ioe Millinery People. ae 3 Sete andl ~— me < 2 a Trifling Gold and the most serious consequences it will follow. 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ISLAND, WEDNESDAY APRIL 25 1900 NEWS FROM THE FRONT dl LORD ROBERTS HAS SPREA THE NET. ” —_——— Official List of the British Losses at Wepener. The Situation at Mafeking — Lady Wilson’s Des- patch—British Clearing the Ground — Alleged Rebels in Cape Colony and Natal. ——— SpectiAL DespatcH TO THE EXAMINER. ALLEGED REBELS. Care Town, April 23.—The authorities | “™* here have already lieted the names of| F 12,000 alleged rebels in Cape Colony and | General Ian Hamiitoa, occupied the water Natal. | works at Saans Post. As the enemy are | holding the neighborhood hills in some ( Cork, believed to be wounded and prison- joey ones that were in complete order.” The mounted infantry, yesterday,under | Indian Famine. | | | | Loxpox, April 24.—The viceroy of India, Lord Curson, wirea that the recent ! rain storms have not improved the sitna- tion, that the demands for relief are in-« | Creasing, now reaching 5,319,000 persons, (but that the arrangements for relief are | equal to the increasing strain. One dis- trict Jost one million cattle out of 1,300,- | 000 head, and almost numberless human beings were found dead from starvatiun In addition children were found wandering in all directons, homeless, naked and |emaciated, and cases were reported of | children being sold. The cfficials, reporis fully confirm the worst stories of the , terrible nature of the distress. f _ —The discreet Guardian remarks that “Despotism is in part vindieated by the fact that at the opening of the Paris Ex- position the Ruesiam exhibits were the The Guardian onght to have added that the exhibits of Canada, under the adminie- tration of Mr. Tarte and his party | myrmidons, were all ina muddle. —We have received the thirty-nioth | ; annual report of the Provincial Rifle As- prerin of P. E. Island. The Council’s report shows that the work of the Asso- ciation for 1899 has been suecessful. The prize list stands the same as in previous years, $876. A sligat deficit has been in~ curred owing tothe necessity of placing an extra target atthe range. The resulte of the Inter-Maritime Match and the Ottawa team in which men from the Association have taken part during the year is printed with the report and also the thirty-~ninth annual prize meeting at Kensington Range. The annual meeting of the Asso- ciation will be held in the City Court | Room, City Hali, on Friday, April 27th, at 4 e’clock, p. m, London, April 25.—The reports that the siege of Wepener had been raised were apparently premature, j some 49,000 or more men and id0 guns, sewi-cifcie } eorering the whole western around Wepener. BRITISH LOSSES. Lonpon, April 25.—The official list of the Brit'sh losses at Wepener from April 9th to 18th shows: killed, officers 3, men 18 ; wounded, cffizers 16, men 86. AT MAFEKING. Loxpon, April 26 —Lady Sarah Wi'son | in a despatch to the Daily Mail from Mafeking, dated April 8th, says: o3ts and is full of husks. This causes much illoess. “The news of the check of the relieving columo is a terrible disappointment. ‘Last Friday 33 natives issued forth to recover some cattle which had beea looted by the Boers. They were betrayed by un- friendly natives to the Boers who sur- rounded them while they were sleeping and shot them all but one—giving no quarier. » Qae escapid to tell the tale. The natives are now mad for revenge and it will be very difficult to control them. “The bombardment continues. Our casualties to the combatants up to the end of March aggregated 366 killed and wound- oa.” The Mafeking correspondent of the Times, telegraphing April 9th, givesja gloomy account of the d-etress of the town, due to a probability ofthe siege lasting until the end of May. CLEARING THE GROUND. Lonpon, April 25.—Tne War Office has issued the following despatch from Lord Roberte, dated Bloemfontein, April 24; tenerals Brabant and Hart, yesterday, turned the positionoccupied by the enemy }—who tried to prevent their moving northward,—and got into heliograpbie communication with Coionel Dalgety, commandant of the besieged garrison a; Wepener, «bo reported all well. General Brabant has three wounded, and one missing. Three were wounded on the previousday. The Border regi- ment had seven wounded. At 1 p. m., Generals Brabant and Hart | were eight miles south of Wepener. The Eleventh Division, under Generals Pole-Carew and Frecch,with two brigades of cavalry reached Tweede Celuk, meeting ! with no serious opposition. ’ Heliograph communication has been es~ WEPENER IN THE NET. | Lord Roberts has now epread a net with | ; : | “Our bread isnow made entirely out of , strength the Ninth Division, consisting of : ? 6 °"| Minsrre, Snow. — Don’t forget the | seoers Smith-Dorrien and General Mac- | League of the Cross Minstrel Show oa | donald 3 brigades, has been despatched to’ M mdey evening next. It will Le well | support Hamilton. , worth patron’zing,sodo not mise it. If General Maxwell’s brigade, formerly /¥°4 9° yew'il only regret it once and that , will be always, TTT met | General Chermeides of the 7th division, | yemerday moved eastward and ecized the) oper Prince Ep anp—white Rose _ hills covering the wagon bridge over the | degree will meet tonight at 8 o’clock. | Modder River at Kran’s Knaa', an impor- | ’ tant communication much used by the’ Stanley Bres, show tonigat. Boers. | ome. During tbe last three weeks, our only When we say it will repay casualty was private Brum, of the New you to attend our show to- a. Wales Mounted Rifles,taken prison- | night we mean it. If you are ‘a lover of beautiful goods, artistically arranged and tuste- fully displayed, come tonight, 8 to 9.39. Stanley Bros, ee Conservatives in Council—What NT About those Delayed Reports ? is 4 FEY AT OTTAWA. REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD USE BRITISH FURNITURE SHINE Because > 1. It does the wood geod being an oi! finish not a solution ef gume in alcoho!. 2. It cleans as it goer, 3. It shines brilliantly, 4. It is easy to use. 5. It can be used on the most delie- ate pieces cf fursiture. 6. It bas been used and preved by hundreds to be a good article. 7. We believe tn it—make it and sell it at lbc per bottle. Buy it— That’s al). A. W. Reddin, Phm. B. Central Drugstore. (Spectra, to THe ExaMIner. } Orrawa, April 25.--The Liberal-Con- | Servative caucus held yesterday was the} best attended this session. Action was taken concerning the dia- tribution of campaign literature, and ther was a discussion as td the method to be adopted for making the ministers bring down their, departmental reporte. It is expected that the budget debate will close early next week, er Obituary. (Spzcra, to Toe Examiner |] Hatirax, April 23.—James R. Craigg. the senior member of the firm of Craigg Bros. & Co., died this morning. A Special Court. 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