MORE TROOPS ARRIVED.

Waikato Argus, Volume VII, Issue 517, 23 November 1899, Page 2

MORE TROOPS ARRIVED.

* LADYSMITiI STILL SAFE. FIGHTING AT MAFEKING. LOOTING AT JOHANNESBURG. RELIEF OF KIMBERLEY. [CNITIiD I'RKSS ASSOCIATION.] (ISY ELECTRIC TKLKOKAPH— COPYRIGHT). Durban, November 20. A REPORT from Ludysmith on November 18th stated that the troops wero in good health. It is considered thoy will bo able to hold out for two months. Capetown, November 20. General Buller has arrived at De Aar Junction. Major-Genoral Gatacro has been appointed commander atQueeuftowu, to which place the British troops from Aliwal North and Stormberg recently retired. Sir A. Milner has issued a proclamation stating that all loyalists totho British cause who have sustained losses through their allegiance will be fully compensated. Mr Schreiner, the Cape Premier, has announced that it is not intended to call out the Cape burgher forces, but they must simply remain loyal to Great Britain. The duties. on meat imported into the Capo have been suspended. November 21. Tho New South Wales Lancers have arrived at the Orange River. The Boers' casualties at Belmont totalled 200. Women looted £IOOO worth of goods from shops at Johannesburg. The machinery of two of tho closed mines has been wrecked. Mafeking was safe up to the 12th. Commandant Cronje's son was killed while directing an assault on the 7th. The Boers wero occupied for two hours removiug tho dead and wounded. The British loss included Captains Marsham and Peckell killed, and seven wounded. The commandant of 700 Boers at Colesburg besought the residents to fight for their independence, otherwise they would, he said, always be dominated by Downing-street. President Steyp's proclamation supported this appeal, but the response was lukewarm. Lieut. - General Lord Methuen'a column, 500 strong, is awaiting tho arrival of a naval brigade. The column will then advance to Kiuiberley this week. An additional 4000 troops have arrived at Capetown, disembarking and entraining witlj wonderful smoothness and celerity. London, November 21. The war relief fund now amounts to £270,000. including £24,000 subscribed by the Stock Exchange. The Queen has ordered a large number of tins of chocolate as a personal gift to the soldiers in South Africa. THE BASUTOSCapetown, November 20. Sir Godfrej Y. Lagden, Governor of Basutoland, has hid interviews with Letherodi and other chiefs, and has succeeded in calming the Basutos. He explained that had they risen many of the Dutch would have joined the Boers. Chief Malopos finds it difficult to escape the intrigues of Field Cornet Rauiuembach. The Boers threaten to arrest the Basuto chiefs and British officials.