CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

Manawatu Herald, 8 November 1900, Page 2

CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

« The Transvaal. , GUNS CAPTURED FROM THE ENEMY. Lord Kitchener, who is at Lydenburg, made a night march, and surprised General Schoeman at Steemkampsberg, and General Schalkburger at Roorkrang. The Boers went north five being killed and much ammunition captured. Four British soldiers were wounded. Major- General Smith- Don ien, with two columns, also made a night march. Starting from Belfast in a deluge of rain the force surprised a Boer laager at Wilkop. The wet and cold prevented a continuation of the march. The enemy returned, and boldly attacked the British, but lost heavily. The British casualties were few. A force of New South Wales Mounted Rifles on October 27th captured a Krupp gun belonging to General De Wet. One of the guns lost by the U Battery at Sannas Post has been recaptured by Major-General Le Galiais. Colonel Plumer has expelled the Boers from two strong positions to the south-east of Rustenburg, chasing them through difficult country. A force 01 the Imperial Yeomanry carried one position by assault, while the Australiau Bushmen turned another, captured several prisoners and preventing a movement of the ' enemy to the southward. Three hundred Boers captured Reddersburg, forty-eight miles south of Bloemfoutein, commandeered stores, ' and then retired. '

LORD ROBERTS. Field-Marshal Lord Roberts is visiting the Natal battlefields and his son's grave. He will sail for England on the 20th. One of his daughters is suffering from enteric fever at Pretoria. % A TRIBUTE TO THE SOLDIERS. Lord Roberts has appealed to the nation not to treat returning soldiers to stimulants. He is proud of the army's exemplary record. The men were heroes on the battlefield, and gentlemen everywhere else. Despite malicious falsehoods about the brutality of the soldier, Boer women and children soon acknowledged that they had nothing to fear from the man in khaki. This confidence was gratifying to Britain and to Greatci - Britain whose sons shared to the fullest extent in the suffering and the glory of the war, helping materially to bring about a successful conclusion. MR KRUGER. Mr Kruger has arrived at Gibontil, on the Red Sea, in an increased state of exhaution. In consequence of Mr Kruger requiring a long rest, it is unlikely that I he will conduct the negotiations for international intervention. I VICTIMS OF DISEASE. The following New Zealand Rough riders have died of enteric fever at Johannesburg :— 666, Saddler W. N. Moffatt (Timaru) ; 687, Trooper J. W. Sansom (Southbrook, Canterbury) ; 705, Trooper W. P. Walters (Rimu, Westland). [All belong to the third contingent.] DE WET'S CASUALTIES. It transpires that the enemy's total casualties in the engagement at Frederickstad were four* [This message refers to the recent encounter between General Barton's forces and General De Wet's commando. Former cable messages stated that De Wet's force has been scattered in all directions with considerable loss, the casualties mentioned aggregating 87.] A Reuter's message says it is reported at Kroonstad that De Wet has reached Frankforf, about thirty miles east ot Heibron, after capturing 800 cattle in the vicinity. A MONTH'S CASUALTIES. One hundred and seventy British were killed in action during October, seventy-one died of wounds, 367 of disease, and 2800 were invalided home. THE CAPTURED OUTPOST. The outpost captured at Genwa consisted of men belonging to the volunteer company of the Berkshires. They were captured while asleep in the trenches. RETURNING NEW ZEALANDERS. A TRIBUTE FROM LORD ROBERTS. The Premier has received the following cablegram from Lord Roberts, dated Johannesburg, 3rd November : — One officer and 82 men of the New Zealand Contingents are returning home in the Harlech Castle leaving Gapetown to-day. There are no troops who have served under me in South Africa to whom I am more indebted than to those gallant men whom New Zealand sent to assist the Mother Country. No praise can be too high for them. RETURNING COLONIALS. The Victorian Contingent returning by the Harlech Castle numbers eight officers and 142 men. AH the colonies have received laudatory cablegrams from Lord Roberts in connection with the services of their troops. MISCELLANEOUS. The Government of the Province of Ontario will make a grant to each member of the Canadian Contingent in South Africa of 160 acres ot land. The French Government has closed the Boer cottage at the Exhibition, in consequence of the Commissioner refusing to obliterate offensive remarks about Queen Victoria written on the