THE BOER WAR.

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 148, 4 July 1901, Page 2

THE BOER WAR.

THIRTY FARMER HEROES. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, July 2. Fouchc attacked the township of McLean, in Transkei. Thirty farmers, however, kept him in check for two days, till Dalgety’s Cape Mounteds and Griqualand llitlcs arrived, when the liners scattered. The British hold Fouche’s only routes of retreat. In connection with the maltreatment of Jr J. N. Botha, a member of the Capo Assembly, the Boers first sjambocked him >efore trial, and afterwards fined him. Itiniington’s scouts surrounded and capaired eleven Boers heliographing from a rill at Potrusburg. Private, Adam Blair, of the New Zealand Mounted Rides, was slightly wounded at Watervaalhock. The steamer Orient sailed from East London for Australia on Juno 22nd with SCO officers and men of the Now South Wales and Victorian Bushmen. Private Robert McLean, of New Zealand Mounteds, has been killed at Jcodokoop. Andries De Wet, claiming to bo a nephew of Christopher lie Wet, is arousing an anti-British demonstration at Brussels and Ghent, alleging military atrocities in the r| Y: nsvnul. The polico warned him that no would be expelled if he continued his propaganda. l)o Wet thereupon started for Paris. A conspicuous service cross has been conferred on the late Midshipman Cymbcrline Iluddart, son of Mr Huddart, of Huddart, Parker and Co., who fell at the battle of Graspan. Deceased was a midshipman on the cruiser Doris.