The Transvaal.

Manawatu Herald, 26 July 1900, Page 2

The Transvaal.

ANOTHER ENGAGEMENT. A Boer commando, with for guns, on Saturday surrounded and determinedly attacked Raihead, near Heidelberg, some forty miles southeast of Johannesburg, on the Natal to Pretoria railway. The attack was repulsed by detachments of the Dublin Fusiliers, engineers and Imperial Yeomanry before the arrival of reinforcements despatched to the scene by Major-General Fitroy Hart. FIGHTING WITH DE WET. A column under Colonel M. O. Little, of the Ninth (Queen's Royal) Lancers met and fought De Wet's commando near Lindley, forty miles east of Kroonstad. The engagement, resulted in the repulse of the Boers, who were broken into two sections. Colonel Little's action was with the fifteen hundred of De Wet's force who were reported last week to have broken through the British cordon near Bethlehem. The casualties on the British side were slight. News has reached the War Office that on the 19th inst. Major-General Broadvvood's torce had a sharp encounter with the Boers at Palmeitfontein, about twenty miles west of Bethlehem in the direction of Senekal. The enemy, who were 2000 strong, and had four guns, were led by General De Wet, Commandant Christian De Wet and ex- President Steyn. During the engagement Major Moore, of the West Australian Mounted Infantry, and four men were killed. Lieutenant the Hon. F. W. Stanley (10th Hussars), Lieutenant D. K. L. Tooth (New South Wales) and fourteen men were wounded. Eight Boers were buried. Darkness prevented the pursuit of the Boers. REINFORCEMENTS. The Hon. George Wyndham, Parliamentary Secretary to the War Office, announced in the House of Commons that 12,203 British soldiers had been sent to South Africa since May. In anticipation of reinforcements being sent to China from the British troops now in South Africa, an additonal ten thousand men are being raised in Cape Colony. THE PEACE ENVOY. Mr J. M. A. Wolmarans, late of the Boer peace delegation, when arrested . at Hat her ley for having broken his*

oath of neutrality, confessed that he had served in a. commando since he took the oath. A sum of £12,000 was found in his house. MISCELLANEOUS. A train which was conveying twenty-one invalids on the section of railway south-west of Johannesburg, between Krugersdorp and Potchefstroon, was wrecked through inter- * ference with the line by the Boers. An employee of the Cape Government, who was implicated in the rebellion, has been sentenced to five years imprisonment, and two others to three years' each. THE RAILWAY AGAIN INTERRUPTED. The Boers have again destroyed the telegraph wires and railway line near Honning Spruit, twenty-five miles north of Kroonstad. .< It is announced that the enemy also captured a British train of supplies, and took a hundred Highlanders prisoners. A battle is reported to be pending.