South Africa.

Manawatu Herald, 19 June 1902, Page 2

South Africa.

SURRENDERED BOERS. There are expected to be five thousand additional surrenders before the 17th inst. Many of the recent Boer surrenderers are boys and old men. Two thousand Boers have surrendered at Reitz, in the north-east of Orange River Colony. The total number of surrenderers is eleven thousand and twenty-two. They include Mr Steyn’s bodyguard and Commandant Duboit’s staff. Lord Milner is giving ten days’ rations and tents to those able to support themselves on their old farms. One blockhouse in every six erected in connection with the war will be left standing. Commandants Prinsloo, Froneman, Cronje, Vermaas and Eantenbach brought to Winburg, in the Orange River Colony, 850 men belonging to Winburg, Senekal, Ladybrand and Fioksburg. The majority of these men had rifles, but the bulk of their ammunition had been spent in game-shooting since peace was proclaimed. They were the best dressed of all the commandoes, and their horses were in splendid condition. LEADING BURGHERS. The Boer generals, Louis Botha, De la Eey and Lucas Mayer and Mr Reitz, are expected to arrive in July at Utrecht, in Holland. Louis Botha will spend several weeks in London during August. CHRISTIAN DE WET’S COUNSEL. The inmates of one of the concentration camps erected an arch inscribed “ Welcome to our braves.” General De Wot, ■on visiting the camp, was surrounded by thousands of women and children, struggling to shake hands with him. He thanked the women, saying that if they had been less staunch the burghers would have surrendered long ago. “We are now for the first time under the British Government,” he added. “ I am under it, having fought till there was no more hope. It is a thoroughly lawful Government to-day. God has thus decided, summoning us as Christian people to be faithful to our new Government. Let us submit to God’s overruling will. I exhort you to serve the new Government loyally, with myself and the burghers."

General De Wet states that the commandoes never slept on the same spot for two consecutive nights. The movements of the British columns were known to all commandoes within a radius of seventy miles the same day. Da Wet admitted that he had used the sjambok on his men. In moral effect, he says, it exceeded all other punishments. THE NATIONAL SCOUTS. The officers of the National Burgher Scouts dined at Pretoria. Colonel Gironard, in the course of a speech, said that he, a PrenohCanadian, was sitting between two Frenchmen, it- Commandants Vilonel and Celliers. He dilated Updd Canadian freedom; quoting the Premiership of Sir Wilfrid Laurier (a FrenchCanadian) over the whole Dominion as an instance which proved the liberality of the Constitution. Colonel Gironard’s speech caused a deep impression. The National Scouts are disbanding.

Mr Seddon In England. #> The Cape liner Saxon with Mr Seddon, Captain Seddon, Colonel Sorter, and part of the New Zealand Odrdhfttion Contingent, has arrived at Southampton, The Sheriff and Mayor of Southampton, Lord Onslow, and the Duke of Connaught, with his aide-de-cficlji, iile't the New, Zealand party and gave them a cordikl seldord(f. Mr W. P. Reeves, Agent-Gdflerfel for New Zealand, and many New Zealanders met Mr Seddon’s party at the Waterloo Railway Station, and drove in Royal carriages to the Hotel Cecil. Large crowds warmly cheered the party. Mr Seddon will spend the Week end at Lord Onslow’s seat in Kent.