A FIVE DAYSVARMISTICE. BOERS EXPECTED TO SURRENDER. ■ RADIANS ANdThE0 Srning Sleotrio Telegraph-Copyright— United Press Association. London, Sept. 27. Sixteen Canadian officers and 319 met have left Capetown homeward bound. Two twelve-pounders belonging to (, battery, lost at Koornspruit, are amonj ' the gunfl found at the Crocodile river. (Received Sept. 28, 8.50 a.m.) Boer officials with bar gold have lefl Dalagoa Bay for Europe by the Bteamei Hczog. (Rsceived Sept. 28, 9. 1 5 a. m. ) The chairman of the Bank of Africa states that owing to the stoppage of the Transvaal gold mines the world s supply of gold has diminished by sixteen millions sterling during the past year. Mrs KrugerT wife of the ex-Preßident, IB feeble, and unable to leave Pretoria. Capetown, Sept. 27. During the discussion on the Treason Bill in the Council, Mr Wm. Ross, member for Griqualand West, intimated his inten tion when in Committee to move for the ' insertion of fifteen years, instead of five years, aa the period for the diafranchue ment of rebels. (Received September 28, 9.10 a.m.) London, Sept. 27. Lord Roberts has granted the Boers an armistice of five days. It is expected that Erasmus will surrender. Schalkburger, acting president of the Transvaal Boers, Viljoen, and the bulk of the Boers are concentrated in the bush veldt, east of Pieternburg, in an unhealty situation. It is believed that these Boers are likely to surrender. De Wet is reported to be southwest of Kopjes station with 900 men and three -■ - Lord Roberts announces that the City Imperial Volunteers will arrive in London : -~ -'- lon November fifth, but he fears that he " - ' himself will not return so soon. W Ellington, this day. - -The Premier has received the following -'•- cablegram from the High Commissioner at Capetown, dated the 26th : " Newcombe progressing favorably. Sails for England. in the Dunera." Mr W." H. Skinner, of Wellington, has received news of the death of Mb son Harry in Mooi river military hospital on the 2nd July. Trooper Skinner arrived in. Natal at the outbreak of the war, and "--' joined Thorneyoroft's Mounted Infantry. - The cause -of death was fever, which h» ooritradted after the capture of Laing's Nek. He was well known in amateur --. : thtatrical oircles in Wellington. 