THE BOER WAR.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 30 May 1901, Page 4

THE BOER WAR.

[by electric telegraph.—copyright]

(per press association.)

London, May 29.

The Boers sniped Major-General Elliot’s force on its way from Kroonstad, nflicting slight casualties. Elliot collected 1700 horses, 2000 cattle and some refugees. Commandants Erasmus and Pretorius, with 5000 man, have crossed the Pietersbarg railway near Warerfall North.

The Boers derailed a train near Godwon. Prior to the explosion which caused the derailment, and while riding along the railway at night, they fired on the train, killing four and wounding three of the sick of a Welsh Regiment travelling to the hospital. After seizing some boxes of biscuits the Boers decamped. Communication between Zeerust and Mafeking has been opened. Ex-General Schoeman, while lighting a cigar in his own house at Pretoria, accidentally dropped a match into a haltcharged 4’7 inch shell, a relic of the Ladysmith siege. The lyddite exploded, and killed Schoeman and his daughter and wounded his wife and two others. The enemy’s remount resources are reduced to a minimum, a

Colonel Johann Colenbrander’s squadron and Bochuno’a Horse captured fifty Boers near Yietersburg. Two farmers were sentenced at Oradock to five years imprisonment and fined one hundred pounds each for taking up arms and joining commandos.