Show NATIVES RISING AGAINST BOERS SAID TO HAVE TAKEN UP ARMS new york jan 4 A dispatch to the new york herald says the de beers company has decided not to pay a dividend but to husband their resources owing to the complete stoppage 0 work native rumors are current to the effect that the bechunas have risen against the boers and have captured two guns the enemy remains quiescent pains are being taken by the enemy to conceal their losses in the recent battles bishof is said to be full of wounded men and that at Jacob dal there are at least two hundred and fifty there Is a field hospital containing another hundred attached to the camp at in view of the provable prolongation of the siege steps are being taken by the military authorities to ration all tho inhabitants the medical officers say that apart from waste by war the death rate Is not exceptionally high for the time of year |