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Manawatu Herald, 23 August 1900, Page 2

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DE WET ENGAGED. A NEW ZE LANDER HONORED. On Saturday Brigadier-General Mahon engaged De Wet at Roode-kop-Jes, on the .west bank of the Crocodile River, and captured some waggons and prisoners. De Wet sjarabooked the burghers to compel them to march. If Lord Roberts' orders had been carried out to the letter on two occasions, De Wet would have been captured. Trooper Aufrayer, of the New South Wales Infantry, and Trooper otts (sic), a New Zealander, were each awarded one of four scarves made by the Queen and given for distinguished bravery. The recipients had to be selected by their comrades. THE PLOT G INST LORD ROBERTS. The Sydney Herald correspondent states that the Johannesburg p ot was discovered through a nurse who obtained information from a man named Lower disclosing it to a patient. The latter informed the military-authorities, and Lower was arrested. Among the papers found on him was one from the Commandant of a large force of the enemy, which was 1 within 14 miles of the town. The paper contained the names of a large number of foreign wealthy and prominent residents, against whom no suspicion of disloyalty had been held. The intention was to cause a panic at Gymkana, and then shoot the British and their supporters. Several hundred arrests have been made.