The Transvaal.
♦ ■ FIGHTING THE RAIDERS. It is officially announced that Major General Clements's Brigade, while es- i corting supplies and heavy guns, came into action with a Boer force and drove it with loss to the north of the Zand River. HONNINGSPRUIT. During the affair at Honningspruit, twenty-two miles north of Kroonstad where the Boers burned three railway culverts, four hundred ex-prisoners; released from Waterval arrived in % train under Colonel Bullock, of the Devonshire Regiment, who was cap* tured at the battle of Tugela, in Natal. This force was armed with Mausers, and for seven hours General De Wet's commando, numbering 800, with three »uns, was held in check. Reinforcemerits finally arrived from Kroonstad and the Boers retired. NE^R SENEKAL. Major-General Rjndle's rearguard, near Senekal, in the north-east of Orange River Colony, repulsed a daring attack by a Boer commando. The troops chased the Boers to their main laager at Safalberg, killing many and burning the farms where Boers had taken refuge, under the eyes of many of the enemy who were watching the fight trom Safalberg heights. BRITISH PRISONERS. When a draft of five hundred British prisoners who had been conveyed to Machododorg, on the Delagoa Bay railway arrived at their destination they saluted President Kruger, who raised his hat in response as they passed. The prisoners are being well treated. BOTHA RETURNING. The advance guard of General Louis Botha's army, which retreated eastward after the battle of Eerste Fabrieken, on the 12th inst., has returned to the hills eighteen miles from Pretoria. NEAR PRETORIA. Major-General Huttqn's Brigade of colonial and Australian Mounted Infantry have had a successful skirmish with a force of Boers a little to the south-east of Pretoria. REBELS QUELLED. Lieutenant - General Sir Charles VVarren, Administrator of Bechuanaland has reported by telegraph that the rebellion in the north-west, part of Cape Colony has been extinguished. MISCELLANEOUS. The military attaches of the foreign Powers who have been with Lord Roberts's staff are retnrning home. Private Hill, of the New South Wales Mounted Infantry, has died nt the front from enteric fever. Private Baxter, of the same corps, is reported missing. Dr Jameson (of " Raid " fame) has been elected unopposed for Kimberley in the Cape House of Assembly.
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Manawatu Herald, 30 June 1900, Page 2
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370The Transvaal. Manawatu Herald, 30 June 1900, Page 2
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