NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE war news of the past week has been without exception good. The captures and surrenders have been very large-- over 'five hundred — and include Kritzinger, the notorious partisan chiciaain. probably, next to Botha., De Wet, and Delarey, the most important Boer leader still in the field. • Along with this news from the field come most encouraging accounts of the way in which the Orange Colony and the Transvaal are settling down,—the conditions of life becoming almost normal. We note also that the enlist- ment of .ex-burghers on our side continues, and that Lord Kitchener, on visiting the camp of the National Scouts formed of Boers, promised them that in the settlement their claims should have the first consideration. But though things are beginning to go so well, the Government here are rightly not relaxing, but increasing their efforts to keep the Army in- good condition. On Friday it was announced that two thousand more Imperial Yeomanry would be raised to send out to the front as drafts, and a draft of twelve hundred Guards is also under orders. At the same time six Militia battalions are to be embodied here.
