The Transvaal.

Manawatu Herald, 12 July 1900, Page 2

The Transvaal.

RELEASED PRISONERS. Eight hundred British prisoners, hitherto detained at Reitz, in Orange River Colony, 75 miles east of Kroonstad, have been put over the border into Natal by their captors. They consist of men of the Imperial Yeomanry and the Derbyshire Militia, who were captured in the recent raids made along the railway line. There are no officers among them. VICTORIA CROSS HEROES. Awards of the Victoria Cross have been made as follows : — Captain FitzClarence. of the Royal 1 Fusiliers (City of London Regiment), Trooper, H. Ramsden, and Sergeant Martineau, for gallantry at Mafeking. Captain E. B. Towse of the Gordon I Highlanders, for gallantry at Mount Thaba. Lieutenant Sir John Milbanks. A.D.C. to Lieutenant-General French, for bravery in the Colesberg district, North Cape Colony. MISCELLANEOUS. A commission in the Fourth Dragoons has been accepted by Corporal Stewart, of the Australian Horse (New South Wales). Small raiding parties of the enemy are interfering with General Bullcr's communications in the Standerton district, on the railway Letween Lang's Nek and Pretoria. The Portuguese, authorities are tacitly allowing many burghers with large herds to trek to Gazaland, to the north of Delagoa Bay. NATAL. Sir W. F. Hely-Hutcheson, the Governor of Natal, is conferring with Sir Alfred Milner relative to Natal retaining the Wakkerstroom and Vryheid districts of the Transvaal (north of the Buffalo river) as compensation for losses suffered during the war. TRAITORS DETECTED. Several members of the Dutch ambulance corps at Pretoria have been convicted of carrying information and ammunition to the Boers, and have been sent to Capetown. MILITARY LAND GRANTS. The Government' intends to appoint a small Commission of experts to investigate locally the question of land grants to soldiers in South Africa.