GENERAL BULLER'S REINFORCEMENTS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1, 2 January 1900, Page 2

GENERAL BULLER'S REINFORCEMENTS.

MOVING UP P3OM CAPETOWN. THE NEW LONDON COMPANY. . Capetown, December 80. There are indications of farther rain, which would fill the Boer trenches at Magerafontein and Tugela. General Bailer, since his reverse has been reinforced by 8000 men and 18 guna, ._ Count Gleichen, wounded m the battle at Modder , River, is oonvaleeoeiit. The 19th and 28th batteries of field artillery arrived at Capetown and have started for Durban. Lowdon, December 80. Ten thousand are now assured for the Imperial Yeomanry force. The Prinoe of Wales, as Colonel m Chief, oototributed 100 guineas towards their equipment and the London Stook Esohange 100 hones. BECOVERY OP GENERAL WHITE. CONTRABAND OP WAR. CAPTURE OP A GERMAN BTEIMEE. LONDON PRRAOHERB ONiMfl WAfi. LORD ROBERTS 7 BUOOeWmB DR LEYDS .CONFERRING THS E * YPTI ANB. 9BH \PpBAN, Deoembei^^^^H General Wfrite has recoveredlHHH fever. ? The cruiser Magienne captured «HH German East African steamer b9B desrath at Doagoa Bay with oontrl^H band of war. The passengers in-fl eluded three German offioers and 9 twenty men dressed m bharkee, mtending to join the Boers; 1 The Bnndssrath vas sent to Dor- J ban to await the holding of th© Prize Court. The ownets deny she was carrying contraband cargo. M. Bulow, German Minister of Foreign Affairs, promised to interpose. London, December 31. Dr Oreighton, Bishop of London, preaching at a supplication service at Bt, Paul's, Cathedral, said it wat not good for us to soppose we oould always succeed on our teims m our own way. The Rev. Hugh Price Hughes, exPresident o? the Wesleyan Conference, favors Jnstead of the proposed day of humiliation and prayer, m connection with the war, a day of thanksgiving for the readiness of J Britain to sirrender life itself to en- B sure freedom and justice for their ? kinomen. M Ceylon gsnds a contingent ojlJ mounted Vriunteers to the jEffansT vaal. 1 \ Theßritiafc Governme^flooepted gifts of horwa fronxtjjferalers of the Native Stafcii- «if Mysore, Jadpifc and Oashme«/ The Duk/of Connaught sucoeeds Lord Robeits as Commander iv Ireland. Cairo, December 31. Dr Lsyda has written urging the Egyptian agitator, Mustapha Kiamil, to shaJie o£E British control.