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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

THE only event of special importance to be chronicled this week in regard to the war is the plucky defence of Richmond, a place in Cape Colony south of De Aar. A large force of Boers under Malan and Smit attacked the place from dawn to dusk on Tuesday, but they were repelled with loss, and when darkness fell abandoned the attack, probably because they had heard of the approach of Colonel Lund's column. The town guard seems to have behaved very well. On the whole, the recrudescence of activity in the Colony does not seem likely to prove very important. Meantime in other parts of the theatre of war very large captures are reported.

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