News py Te Tare has often been utilised by a bold speculator for the speedy accumulation of a vast fortune. Knowledge is power iv every avenue of life when properly wielded. The proprietor of Holloway's Pills and Ointment is fully alive to this fact, and knowing their value asa cure for all diseases, he has made their merits known in all parts of the world. Commercial men who, to keep pace with the times, have always to work at high pressure should never be without a supply of these valuable medicines. They purify the blood, strengthen the stomach, quicken {the circulation and invigorate the system. For nervous or neuralgic headache, no remedy has been found to match them in excellence, (From Daily Mail" Corcespondent, Lady Surah Wilson.)
Mafekin Friday, 18th May (vin Kimborley, Friday, 25th May), The relief column express amazement at the smallness of Mufel It may not be generally known that, while the area of the houses is barely a square mile, the line of circumference of the defences measures eight miles. To defend this, barely 800 men were available, of whom 400 were the Town Guard.
Our artillery consisted of four old muzzle. loading 7-pounders, which were constantly the blacksmith's shop undergoing 1¢- pairs, four Maxims, one Hotchkiss, one Nordenfeldt, one old ship gun firing canuonballs, and a home-made howitzer.
None of this artillery had more than 8,000 yards range, For eight mantis the Boers had bullied with modern artillery, and we had to sit dumb, but yesterday we had our revenge.
impossible to express the delight of the town at seeing the fine Royal Horse and Canadian Artillery gallop gaily into action after their marvellous march of 300 miles in twelve days, and then watching the effect of their accurately aimed shells, mostly high shrapnel, bursting immediately over the Iaager, The Boer encampment, which was already packed, was cleared in twenty minutes.
Thanksgiving services were held this morning close to the small cemetery, Colonel Baden-Powell impressively addressed all the garrison, and then three volleys were fired over the graves of our fallen comrades.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.