The Transvaal.

Manawatu Herald, 18 October 1900, Page 2

The Transvaal.

SKIRMISHING WITH THE ENEMY. A detachment of the West Kent Regiment surprised a Boer laager at Frankfort, killing seven, wounding nine and capturing eighteen of the » enemy.

The Boers are extremely active in the Lindley district, in the north-east of Orange River Colony, A party, disguised in khaki, killed two officers who were out scouting. News has been received that during a skirmish near Mafeking two New South Wales Bushmen and four Boers were killed. Private MacKellai, O'Beliene and Fehey, New South Wales Bushmen, have died of wounds. Three Tasmanian Bushmen have been wounded at Reitfontein. A MESSAGE FROM (LORD HOPETOUN. Lord Hopetoun, Governor-General of Victoria, has asked Lord Roberts to inform the colonial troops that be regretted heing unable to welcome then in London but he hoped to witness their triumphal return to Australia. MR KRUGER. Dr Leyds is supporting the Nationalists' proposal that President Kruger should land at Marseilles. Dr Leyds has left Paris for Hamburg. A MILITARY TROPHY. Lord Roberts has cabled that a trophy ot arms and guns, captured in the Transvaal, will be sent to the Ballarat Exhibition, the guns to remain the property of the Victorian Government. MISCELLANEOUS. Lord Roberts hopes that the Indian troops will start on their return to India in November. Five Frenchmen and a Russian have been found in the Transvaal with an apparatus for tapping telegraph wires. Many Boers have . been arrested with dynamite detonators in their possessions. Lieut.-General Sir Forestler Walker is acting as Deputy-Governor at the Cape during the absence of Sir Alfred Milner, High Commissioner in South Africa, at Pretoria. COUNSELS OF PEACE. A number of influential Transvaal burghers are trying to convince Generals De Wet, De La Rey and Louis Botha, of the futility of continued resistance. A SEMI-MILITARY CONFERENCE. Field-Marshal Lord Roberts, Sir Alfred Milner, High Commissioner in South Africa, and the Generals are conferring at Pretoria. THANKS TO BULLER. Lord Roberts, in an army order, has thanked General Buller for his great services in Natal and the Eastern Transvaal.