| Show RUSSIA Will KEEP AWAY British Minister Assured hat the Czar Will Not Nol Interfere In the War best French Not ot In lIh Gainers a Near Colenso London Jan corros corrns or of the Standard says sas Em Bun Emperor Nicholas buns the nt at St Petersburg SIr C S Scott that Great Britain need tot not fear Intervention or any auy sort ot of from In the tho present South AfrIcan cnn can complications this flits may fairly be Interpreted us nn an ns assurance including on an Indirect promise that France wilt will abstain from creating difficulties for tor England The Tho report of oC tho hoer Door attack upon Molteno Is not yet ct confirmed at the war Apparently Gen Oen holds nothing within Ihu fl miles ot of Coles berg herg Junction Ills HIs request for tor rein dispels ls nn any preSent hope that lie he will bo be able to seize one ot of the tho crossings ot at the Orange river It Is that when Rob Roberts c erts arrives Gen French will be or ordered ordered dered to Quit his present unsupported position and to concentrate his com coin comI I mand at Do Mr Aar or Orange river As the Dally Daily Telegraph says Oen Ocum French seems to be In the position ot of a 11 mann man having a tiger eat cat Inn in a trap and ond unable to kill It for tor want ot of a stick A dispatch from Dover Farm an announces that Pilcher has returned thero safely from Douglass Since return to the front the tho cannonade ot of by the Doers has hns been much livelier Between December and December tour four shells killed one and thirteen men and wounded thirteen officers anil eleven eleen men menTho menThe The Tho war the tho In inferiority ot of the regular artillery by nu au authorizing the equipment ot of time new bat battery tery attached to the London corps with VIckers and Maxims some roam ot of which the tho HoerR and by orderIng ot of those 12 built Immediately The officers and men of It the no new battery batter wll wil bo be supplied tram from the honorable artillery company A dispatch from Kimberley dated December says sas The Tho Hoers Boors last night evinced ablo Interest In inthe the tho PremIer mine maine using their search searchlights lights This morning they actively shelled thu tho tort fort The Tho royal roal artillery replied Our shells were well placed and dropped amidst the smoke ot of the tho guns Last nights storm IS seme ot of OUr military mines but there theto were no casualties Cecil Rhodes has supplied 1 the Doer prisoners With new clothIng Front Irom n a telegram an announces announces that Gen Geum Gatacre yesterday met the invading nt at near the British advance calli ramp at The Do rs retired hur hurriedly shortly after atter the British artillery opened tire lire The enemy occupied Mol Molteno Molteno teno and but bul the latter Place Is now reoccupied b by the British The duke ot of Westminster It Is on an announced will remain In Cape Colony during the var nr It Is understood that n a promInent In ot of the Orange Free State n t near l relative ot of President Steyn has gone cone to the United States to lecture In Inthe inthe the Interest ot of the two republics Capt patrol found Cound the enemy In tOme some force at the tho little Tugela brIdge Their was discovered b by scouts It Is that lIve five men amud n a g th party have not returned St John N D 13 Jan New Years day Mayor Sears sent the fol followIng following lowIng message to the Canadian high commissioner In London May New Years blessings Test rest upon her majesty bringing l with honOr The board ot of aldermen are arc now after hula his scull At n a meeting ot of the public works board yesterday Aldermen Mil Mu Millege loge lege Christie Maxwell Waring Me Mullin and others denied the tho May Iny Mayors ors orlI right to speak for tIle the leOPle As the mayor refused to call caU n a special meeting ot of the council to discuss the matter today a meeting was as c called led hy by eight aldermen and a hot hol time Is ox ex Th The hoard ot works before adjournment adopted the tol 01 lowing loving resolutions Whereas The expression slon peace with honor In diplomatic language In cAtes that n a nation whIch has hall uttered suffered reverses mn may without loss or of dignity accept terms ot of an opponent and Whereas The opinion ot of thIs corn com Is opposed to upon Ullon any other terms than the unconditional sur surrender surrender render ot of the national enemy Resolved That the board regrets that In n a manner the views ot of the people ot of St John should have been set forth In the quoted above and Ind desire to not only express the hope but the firm conviction that her government will p prose prosecute Ute cute the tho war In such manner as t to yin In the nation and the tho cause ot jus the they have as eyet evet undertaken to sustain |
