The Transvaal.

Manawatu Herald, 11 October 1900, Page 2

The Transvaal.

i no i i uiiaiuan MR KRUGER.

A rich Dutchman has offered expresident Kruger Auderlecht Castle, Brussels, as a residence. RELEASED PRISONERSCaptain Lord Loch, of the Grenadier Guards, who was severely wounded, and the forty-eighty cavalrymen who were captured with a convoy on the Natal border, has been released by the Boers. The Hotchkiss gun which the cavalry had was, however retained by the enemy. LORD ROBERTS'S RETURN. The "Daily News" says that Lord Roberts leaves South Africa for England during the last week in October. TIDINGS OF DE WET. General Christian De Wet, the famous Boer raider, is said to be at Wepener. in the south-east ot Orange River Colony. [The last news concerning De Wet indicated that the übiquitous leader was north of Pretoria, about 300 miles from where be is now alleged to be located.]

A small flying column of Boers is moving southward from Wepener drawing supplies from the farms in the district. i THE VISIT OF COLONIALS TO ENGLAND. It is said that the representatives of colonial troops to visit England will be limited to 6000 men. ARRESTS AT JOHANNESBURG. Farmers who were bringing produce to Johannesburg and purchasing foodstuffs were suspected of supplying commandoes with the provisions they had thus acquired, and wholesale arrests were made in Market Square on Saturday. MISCELLANEOUS. Two mounted Australians have been captured near Rouxville, in Orange River Colony, forty miles south of Wepener. RETIRING BOERS, Four thousand Boers who retired from Pilgrim's Rest, twenty miles northwest of Lydenburg, took with them four Long Toms, eight pompoms and fourteen other guns. The Long Tom ammunition is almost exhausted. SPEECH BY MR CHAMBERLAIN. Mr Chamberlain, speaking at Cannonchase, disclaimed any individual responsibility for what was a just and righteous war. Every act and every despatch had, he declared, been approved by his colleagues. How long the Crown colony system would be maintained in the Transvaal after the Military Administration depended on the Boers. TRANSVAAL TREASURE. Dr Leyds declares that the Transvaal archives are at The Hague, and that the treasure has been placed at the disposal of General De Wet and Botha. He further says that Mr Kruger has only taken with him portion of his private fortune. COMPENSATION FOR LOSSES. A Bill has been read a second time in the Cape Legislative Assembly authorising an immediate loan of £500,000 being raised to pay half the private losses suftered by the war.