THE BOER WAR.

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 172, 1 August 1901, Page 2

THE BOER WAR.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, July 30.

The number of prisoners and surrenderors has reached the total of thirty thousand. Many of those at St. Helena have sworn allegiance, and those of their fellows guilty of insulting them have been confined to a fort. Four hundred Boers attacked a small column at Ngutu, Zululand, and were repulsed with loss. The British sustained casualties of four killed, including Major Edwards.

Mr Brodriclt, in the House of Commons, declared that the leakage of official news and the publication of statements concerning impending events, based on secret official documents, had led him to refuse the Daily Mail the usual official information issued by the War Office. The Daily Mail threatens an action if Mr Brodriek ventures on a public platform to accuse them of purloining documents. The War Office makes the following correction :—Lieutenant Trotter, not Carter, New Zealander, has been slightly wounded at Veerenging. A proclamation issued at Pretoria abolishes dogging onacted by law 22 in 1895. It also repeals the native pass law on the goldfields.

A FIERCE FIGHT.

BOERS TUP TO CAPTURE A GUN

THREE MILES’ GALLOP UNDER A HOT FIR".

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright

London, July 31. The Ngutu fight was a tierce one, and lasted all Sunday. The Boors made desperate efforts to capture a gun of the 67th Battery. Once the the gunners wero so hard pressed that they galloped threo miles under a hot lire. It is believed that the Boers lost heavily, the gun doing much service at short range. Lord Kitchener reports that since the 22nd, twenty-four Boers have been killed and 25 wounded, 223 prisoners have been taken, 80 have surrendered, and 181 rifles, 10,850 rounds of ammunition, 205 waggon, 2700 horses, and large quantities of stock have been captured.

SURPRISING THE BOERS.

SEVEN MILLION POUNDS FOR CIVIL SERVICE.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, July 31.

General Kitchener, of North Middleburg, captured Viljoen’s pompon, twenty waggons, and thirty-five prisoners. General Gilbert Hamilton surprised Potgciter's laager, capturing all the waggons, causing 21 casualties.

General Bruce Hamilton surprised McBurgh’s commando at Dassiespoort, capturing 21, including Mcßurgh, who was dangerously wounded. Supplementary Estimates covering seven millions have been submitted to tho House of Jonimons, chiefly for civil administration, railways and constabulary in tho Transvaal and Orange Colony.