February 10 — Manaro.i, &,si> ¥fr tone, 3f clntyre, from Wellingtoa. Passengers —Mrs Lett, Miss M*tks, Captain Hold croft, Messrs Ay fiv ttixou, D. May, W. Laurie, and Master Nixon. February 10 — Huia, s.s., 90 tons, j Crawford, from Wellington. February ICM-Kenucdy, s.s., 137 tons, Graham., from. Nelßon.
DEPARTURES.
WELLINGTON, February 11. Ministers have decided to send more troops to relieve those .who , have al ready served the period for which they enlisted. The firiit draft, numbering about; 300, will be despatched in a Jnontll, and will Be folldwed by an other as soon as they can be got ready. Another medical man will be also sent.
(By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright.) (Per United Press Association.) Received February 11, 1.29 a.m. LONDON, February 10. The enemy violently attacked Gene ral Smith-Dorrien's outposts at Both well, near Pietretief. • The British suf fered severely, but in repulsing tho Boere inflicted heavy losses. General French has occupied Erme lo (away to the east of Johannesburg), whence 6000 Boers retired towards Am sterdam. ' Commandant Mears sjamboked and then shot four' Boers at Standerton for refusing to fight: .  ■ Surgeon Walker was thrice woundnd at Modderfontein, tKo Boers } then tot tered his head on a stone, killing 1- m. . The Boers robbed the passengers t of the .Greylingstaat-Vlaklaagte train, re lieving a nurse of £25. , Bosman, a leading Dutch pastor at Pretoria, who was afforded opportuni ties to investigate 'the charges of Brit ish ill-treatment, of women, reports them as baseless. , The Portuguese Government has agreed to the return to" Delagoa Bay of S. Potts, whose exequatoras Neth erlands Consul was recently withdrawn, the King of Portugal at the time al leging grave reasons for the step.
THE CRISIS IN CHINA.
