CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

Manawatu Herald, 11 September 1900, Page 2

CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

The Transvaal. OPERATIONS AGAINST BOTHA. Lieutenant- General lan Hamilton, who was sent to General Buller's assistance, is executing a wide turning movement by which Lydenburg is threatened. The Boers are removing their stores thence to Pilgrim's Rest. Since 25th August the casualties in General Buller's army have totalled 270. The Boers lost many more. The natives of the Lydenburg district threaten to prevent General Botha's troops passing the Steelpoort river, where they are already looting the burghers' cattle. FLIGHT OF THE BOERS. Fighting around Ladybrand has

ceased. The British troops did not hold the town, but entrenched themselves on the mountain opposite for three days. The British position was shelled by the Boers but only five casualties occurred. When Major-General Bruce Hamilton's relieving force approached on Tuesday evening the Boers fled, after looting Ladybrand, and capturing troops of British horses, an escaped prisoner revealing were these had been concealed, The Boers lost twenty-four killed, and had thirty-six of their number wounded. They had retreated northward to Allandale. WEPENER THREATENED. News has been received that a Boer commando is threateaing Wepener in in the south-east of Orange River Colony. CAPTURE OF LYDENBURG. Despatches from Lord Roberts to the War Office show that Lieut. - General lan Hamilton who was sent to the assistance of General Buller, after the latter had been checked by General Botha in his advance on Lydenburg, carried out a wide turning movement and attacked the Boers' left flank while General Buller operated on the right. After combining with Colonel Lieoester's First Battalion of the King's Royal Rifles, the manoeuvre was more fully developed and proved successful. Dragging a battery to the top of a steep commanding hill, the Boers on General Buller's front were forced to retire, the cavalry under Lord Dundonald and Colonel Brocklehurst, occupying Lydenburg on Thursday. There were tew casualties on the side of the enemy, most of whose guns and stores went to Kruger's Post, fifteen miles north-east and to Spitzkop. EVACUATION OF LADYBRAND. The British forces who were besieged at Ladybrand, in Orange River Colony, by several Boer commandoes, have evacuated the toWti. The besiegers were the Boers who were repulsed at Winburg by MajorGeneral Bruce Hamilton on August 26th. Later messages state that Commandant Ferries and the rading parties who took part in the siege of Ladybrand, are laagered in inaccessible mountain country between Maqualting Nek and Winburg, and are daily recruiting burghers who had been released on parole. BOERS NEAR JOHANNESBURG. A Boer commandant has gathered 700 Boers in the neighbourhood of Johannesburg, The garrison is being strengthened. General Christian De Wet has junctioned with Commandant Theron, near Johannesburg. The combined commandoes, number eighteen hundred hold a strong position to the south of the town, but have no artillery. GENERAL BADEN-POWELL.-Lieutenant-General Baden-Powell who is on a visit to Sir Alfred Milner at Government House, was given an ovation on his arrival in Capetown. It is hinted in the press that Lieut.General Baden-Powell before assuming a post in the annexed territories is going to England. He is at present consulting Sir Alfred Milner, High Commissioner of British South Africa, with regard to the organisation of the military and police forces. BRITAIN'S NEW COLONY. The Transvaal has been named the Transvaal Colony.