The Transvaal.

Manawatu Herald, 23 June 1900, Page 2

The Transvaal.

MESSAGE TO KRUGER. It now tranapwesthat HfrVSa Leeu--ven, one of the Judges of the Transvaal Supreme Court, took Lord Roberts'* assurances to President Kruger that he would not be exiled if he surrendered. The President was asleep in the train which serves as his headquarters when the Judge arrived. Dt Reitz, State Secretary, received the message in regard to the incident, but it is believed that he suppressed it. TERMS OF SETTLEMENT. The Duke of Devonshire, in the course of a speech while presiding at meeting of the Woman's Unionists Association, said the Government did not intend that the Boers should by political intrigues obtain in future what they had lost by force of arms. The Hon J, Chamberlain, who also spoke, declared that any attempt to confer improper freedom upon the Boers would be silence by the overwhelming opinion to the contrary. The settlement, he proceeded to remark, must be final, and no seeds of mischief must be left. BRITISH FORCES CAPTURED. On Thursday last a British reconstruction train was attacked by the enemy at Leeuspruit (?Leeupoort, near Heilbron, in the north-east of Orange River Colony), three of the. occupants being killed, five weaoietf and fifty captured, CAVALRY HORSES. Lieut-General Sir F. W. Forestier Walker has reported that the Australian horses are the best for cavalry purposes, the English animals being next, and those from the Argentine third. The Cape horses are best for mounted infantry, Indian and Australian being next. The Australian horses delivered in South Africa coast £55 per head, the Argentine remounts £26, and the English horrpes £70 to £75. MISCELLANEOUS. Lieut. W. Harrison, of the New South Wales Mounted Infantry has died of wounds received in the fight at Eerste Fabricken.

The railway tunnel under Lang's Nek, which the Boers had blown up, has been repaired by the British engineers, and re-opened to traffic. FIGHTING IN THE SOUTH. On the 19th i-st. a Boer commando, under General De Wet, obstructed a force of Lord Methuen's division^ which was escorting a large convoy to Heilbron, in the north-east of Orange River Colony. The Boers were, however, routed, the British casualties being only three. Lieutenant-General Baden -Powell is at Rustenburg, which is quiet. The division under LieutenantGeneral Sir Archibald Hunter has occupied Krugersdorp, about twenty-five mites west of Johannesburg. It is official 1 v reported that all communications between Pretoria and Capetown have been restored. LORD ROBERTS. Lord Roberts is still silent. No communication has been received from bin. by the War Office since Saturday last. KITCHENER NEARLY CAPTURED. Lord Kitchener, Chief of Staff to Lord Roberts, narrowly escaped cap.ture by the enemy while sleeping in a train on Thursday last. SURROUNDED BOERS. The Boers hemmed in by Lieutenant General Rundle on the Basutoland border are shelling the town of Ficksburg. The enemy are endeavoring to break through the cordon formed by the British troops under Lieutenant-General Rundle and Brigadier-General Brabant to the southward ot their position, fearing that General Buller is advancing against them from the north. Lieutenant-General Rundle has forces strongly entrenched at Ficksburg, and again at Senekal, forty miles to the north-west, midway between Ficksburg and the main railway line. MISCELLANEOUS. >; General Eloff, who was captured at Mafeking, has reached Capetown. He ' will be deported to St. Helena- . Reports from Pretoria state that the , city is quiet. The shops in Johannes- ' burg are open, and a market is held daily. The streets are crowded and business-like.