Official returns show that during the fighting at Lady smith, the Gloucester Regiment had three officers wounded, 19 captured, 80 iuen killed, ;">3 wounded, and 300 captured. The Royal Irish Fusiliers had lU men killed, 41 wounded, and '>oo mis.sing and not reported. The total casual ties, captured and missing during the campaign, excluding the mis.-.ing Royal Irish Fusilier*, are 1 ,*>•'! officers and 1617 men. Nov. n. The \\ ar Office, d'-.-piie tiie absence of news, has no grave anxiety about General \\ hite's a'-iiiity to held his own at Ladysmith. Durban. .Nov. 6. General Duller has apparently been delayed in Capetown. Boers have crossed Bithuli bridge at Norval's Point in Cape Colony and oc cupied Colesburg, suspending the trains to Naauwpoort. London, Nov. •*>. Lieut. Fgerton, KN. Lord Devon shire's nephew, wounded at Ladvsmith has had his legs amputated, lie lias been promoted. [He has since succum bed to his wounds.j Captain Kennedy and a companv of sappers have started for the Cape to utilise Marconi's wireless tc-legraphv in connection vsiih the war. A number of specially mounted twelve-j.ounder tpiick liters, a new fifteen-pounder ijuick I.i>-r, and fotir hundred seamen gunners have left Portsmouth for the Cape. the French police are .shadowing the Boer Committee in Pa is. The Uriri-h war relief fund-amount to £ll7,!juu.
