NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THERE is very little war news to report, except further captures of men, guns, horses, and rifles. Lord Kitchener, telegraphing from Pretoria on Thursday, reckons the totals since his last telegram at 113 prisoners, 98 horses, and one Krupp 12-pounder gun. The Boer casualties he puts at six killed. He also mentions that a 4-7 gun and a Maxim were found destroyed at Helvetia. Our casualties he reports as one man killed and seven men - slightly wounded. The accounts of the special correspondents with various' columns give other particulars, mostly favourable. On the whole, it is clear that though the work is slow, there is progress. If we must, as General Grant put it, "fight it out on. these lines all summer," so be it. If the Boers think there is the slightest inclination' here to weaken on the war issue, they are making a terrible blunder. The heart • of the nation is absolutely sound on the war, and though, very naturally, there is a good deal of swearing over the new taxes, there is not the shadow of a suggestion of stopping the war in order to stop the effusion of treasure. The British people will spend their last sixpence, if necessary, in this quarrel.
