WAR ITEMS.
INOCULATING THE TROOPS,

Dr 11. Brooks Popham, who lias studied the inoculation of the troops against typhoid fever, both on the voyage out and during the campaign, contributes the fol lowing notes : — I "Several men who hal suffered from typhoid showed little or no symptoms after inoculation, and the longer t lit* interval from their attack to tho inocula tion the less marked havo the symptoms been that arose from it. "There were even some cases where men wbo had never had typhoid main tained a total resistance to the effects ot inoculation, showing not the slightest symptom. , . " Since the preventive use of the anti typhoid serutu has been introduced, there appears to be a smaller percentage of uew cases."

KURUMAN'S GALLANT FIGHT.
Ddkban, March 10. Residents of the Kuruman district, who have succeeded in making their escape irom the Transvaal, state that the garrison of Kuruman consisted of only Beventy-five British subjects, of whom four were killed and eighteen wounded in the gallant effort to hold an open village against 1200 Boers, armed with artillery which knocked the little improvised fort to p ; eces. The refugees bitterly blame the supine --- ness'of the Cape Government. The people of Kuruman vainly asked for reinforce ments. These were never sent, although 120 Cape police passed through the village en route to Vryburg. . At the very last moment, when fighting had been going on for a week, and the defenders' ammunition was becoming ex hausted, orders were telegraphed to them to hold the place at all costs.— Central News..
A DASHING EXPLOIT. CAPTURE OF THE SPRINGFONTEIN TRAIN.
