THE WAR.

Te Aroha News, Volume XVI, Issue 222034, 9 January 1900, Page 2

THE WAR.

TRAITORS AT WORK. COLONIALS UNDER FIRE. Capetown, January 2, General Buller has requested the' authorities at Durban to send him 200 stretcher bearers. A traitor at Rendesburg, near berg, started a food train from the engine was detaohed down clivity towards the Boer linesThe British, finding it impossible to - check the runaway, brought their- ■ artillery to bear on it and destroyed the train, thus preventing the falling into the hands of the Capetown, The Boers occupied Molteno and' Cyphergat, but General Gatacre dislodged them, and they fled towards Stormberg. There .has been some fighting around Colesberg, in the New Zealanders were engage Reinforcements are being sent to General French, who holds a. good position against the laager- 1 ; . Capetown, January 5. ' President Steyn has issued a proclamation- that every white man. resident in the Free State shall be hencefoith regarded as a burgher, and be liable to be called upon for active ' service in. the defence of the country. A detachment of New South Wales Lancers, under Major Lee, was sent, to prevent looting of the wrecked commissariat train at Bendesberg; They were exposed to heavy shell and musketry fire for hours.. good shelter and returned' tbtHgSSSj Two were slightly wounded horses were killed. Three Boers wexis killed and' several' wounded. Boers evacuated Molteno. Lieutenant Adie, woundsd'tt Sunnyside, is recovering. , Lord E. Cecil, wounded at M&feking, is progressing satisfactorily. All prisoners captured by Colonel Pilcher, are rebels- j The British success at Douglas checked, disloyalty in Griqualand. Durban, January 4; ' General Buller shelled with destructive effect the Boer- tranches- on the? plain, in the vicinity of Inhlaws HUL east of Colenso[lnhiawe Mountain is-several' south of the Tugela River,, and tern miles east of Colenso. It was recently” occupied by aboqt 400* Boers,, wbo» strongly entrenched, a position. J The British succeeded in shifting,the enemy, whose horses stampeded.'' London, January 4.. Five thousand men of the 1 Seventh British Army Division have sailed f6rSouth Africa-..- * v —s, " 4 ' "London^ Jiaiukry'^i' William Waldorf Astor gives £5000! towards the equipment of the CityImperial Volunteer BatteryLord Iveagh equips a field hospital of Irish surgeons and nurses for Transvaal. Sydney, January 4. The Bushmen’s contingent fund has; now reached £16,000; The second contingent sails on.the17th inst. The transports will, leavein company-