The Transvaal
Capetown, Deb. 18^ The enemy is reinforoiug ancl ntreuching Storraberg. Two 'Si 1 - * ests have been itiadeiu connection ,'■ vif.h General Gatacre's reverse at 40J0 Boers are massed at Coles% burg.
Durban. Dec. 19. The Boers big gun compelled Major General French to evacuate - V^aikop — The Boer 3 occupied an irnpreg nable entrenched 'position acros. the Tugela River under Globbers Kloof, the guns commanding the plain before Colenso. c Majoiv General Hart's Brigade crossed thp ford in the face 'of a heavy fire of shrapnels, Nordenielta, and rifles, and compelled them to reorosa. Major- General Hildyard's brigade with equal heroism, carried Odlenso at the point of the bayonet under & raking fire. The" naval gun 3 silenced the fort.' "IMajae-General Wylie Baton's brigade failed to' to seize Implani Hill after eight huurs fighting. The ßofrsaafferea heavily.
London, Deo. 18. The railway has been destroyed two miles north of the v Modd<?r fliver Bfcat'on. A Boer commando from Jacobsdal is moving in the direction of the railway, of Lord Methuen's rear. Lord Methven has despatched troops to intercept it The Times states that the information supplied toLordMethuen was deliberately false. The Official report" makes th& total British Josses in the wfcr— 72B killed, 2784 'Vounded, find 2265 prisoners. The Boer losses at MagerafonteiA - aro now stated to have been nearly 200. Over one hundred -bodies were found thrown into the rivei' with stones round their necks. '< The second battalion of the Warwickshire Regiment and 100 men of the Yorkshiie Regiment arrived afe Capetown on Sunday.' Five thousand troops of the 6th Division left Southampton on Saturday. - . ' The Queen remains -at - Windsor _ over Christmas, being reluctant td | leave London at the present] unctureV ™ A ™ Reuters messa ge states that'" ;Mr Churchill was recaptured by the ] Boers at Waterfalhausen. "">'
Deo. 191 -<* Field Marshal Lord Koberts and .' Colonel Kelly Kenny saii.on Safe-** day by the Dunotfcar Castle. General : Lord Kitchener reaches Cairo oii 4 Friday. Lord Ohesham is organising a force of 800 yeomanry, which he will command in South Africa; - London Provincial Volunteers urd :■ eagerly and enthusiasticall' r<fepond^ mg to the call. Already offers^ exceed the required number. Almopf"^ complete regiments are voluriteeri' lmg. Oqlonel Howard yincent offer't' toiaisea thousand skilled mark^v men. - t; A cyclone interrupted, the Delagoi? Bay cable. , ' ; * v >:; r LieutKaant-General SirOh^leS Warren has started for De Aar:* Th^ "i second, Canadian" contingent ''> has' ! been accepted. - - ' ■ & '
, Melbourne,' Dec. 19 '-? The Cabinet diacuss^the cotfi . tingent and jrired-'to Mr T.yne ti&j ' t they are prepared' to scad- 2fiO inei' to form park of the Australian Vdtti tmgent. They will be ready Woini !l bark about January- ]-7fch" '!Mm
-v - , Sydney ," Dee ifiF^SS MrLynetQ-da/asks^arliaii® for £60,000, to covet the , c 6 B t M^ , sebofld cohhDgeafc/ -They 'are*- ex^ { peoted to ge!; &\r&f 'tM first weeMfl January. "; - , '- ' , "'-I^^ The offer of a battery h^jblits accepted.- 4'4 ' -v - - \M&i ] Inclusive df the nfedioi^ co%S NewSouto Wales sends SOO.rfE" The Southern. Cross; Uiot^^M^ Waragal bkss£mfr Becuredlw trjuispoyis. ?v? v Ts^.%Bg&] -Ihf Asjeajbly hasVoted^'^Wli to flefray.the/seoond .contitt^#m' pensesj'-.- x ,! -* ' .->.?» s!jia»j
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" Wbtxinotost, Dec n 9. The Premier ht\s 1 ceived the following' cable 'from the Ageni General :— The British have been repulsed every point except Aiundd. The British total loss, including disease, ..is 7700. The Dutch elements >n Bpchnanakfad, in the north-east by Zunts "and in the north bf Natal are? joining the Boers. 'The European Press is hostile 'and jubilant. • Generals Roberta and Kitchener proceed to the Cape, also further reinfomincnts to the ounitar of 50.000. j Volunteers, are already offering* for a second Transvaal coßtmgent 1 be Heretaunga Horse, who sent 17 in the first contingent, will supply an equal number, and thf '•defence Department have rceh ed over 20 other applications. It is understood that plenty of horsot ~--are available. Ministers were in Cabinet to night discussing fhe proposal to .send a second contingent lr > the Transvaal. The position taken up by the Cabinet "was that this Government is of opinion that in "the interests of tbfe Empire and -Now Zealand a second contingent "should be sent similiar to the one already in South Africa; but before "definitely deciding, tfie ( absnet re~eol\e'<?'to take the constitutional coursejand ascertaih the opinion ot icnenibers of the House. T!;en replies will be received by to"morrow, *wh^ the Cabinet wi'l fiiially decide the "question. Th( ■Government has recehed an ofl'ei from the Armstrfrng-ETlfi^ick^o. to supply fottr HotchkihS machine guns with full •■equipments, if the colony furnishes, hdrses '&nd rue'n for tb<guns. The company will supply "~au expert. The company stipulate that these guns shall ire teent for service in South Africa with Ne-n Zealand 3 second 'contingent ; but after the war is over they will become the pro} erty of the colony. This offer has also been placed before membets-of th > House.
_ . DtJNEDIK, DPO. 19. A Highlander's fund is being raised here, and to-day the Bnnlc of New Zealand cabled, free "of charge. £50 to the Loid Pro\osfc of Aberdeen, 'Tor the widows and oiphans of tbe Gordon Highlanders~and £50- to the_ Lord Provost of J?ei'th for Qiq -widows ond orphans of the Black Watch.
All Europe, it seems, is privately assisting the Boers. It 'is t Climated that, at. least one bnndred 'expeditions to the Transvaal are in loourse of preparation in various European countries, and to prevent 'the execution, ef these secret plans 'Great Bnta in was iio-ced to take a 'jjosition which in diplomatic circles Is regarded as somewhat humiliating in view of her past contention that "only a rebellion was in progress in -South Africa. It may be stated "that within the past ten days Lord tautecefofcs jtfddressed two notes to the State Department urging the "United States to 'exercise great VatchMness to, prevent the sailing of fllib&Bterfcg expeditions from America.
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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume II, Issue 88, 21 December 1899, Page 2
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