The Transvaal.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume II, Issue 153, 24 May 1900, Page 3

The Transvaal.

London, May 20. General Buller has sent a force to' expel the enemy from Zululaud. The Boers anticipate an early closing of the Delagoa and Pretoria. The New York Herald's Deiagoa correspondent announces that the Transvaal haa asked Loi'd Roberts for a cessation of hostilities. 'The Progressives at Pretoria, including the members of the judiciary, are seeking to depose Kruger and tho executive with a "view of tendering submission. The Express states that Krugev j personally telegraphed to Lord Salisbury in an exceedingly humble strain, and proposed certain terms of peace. Advices received at Dalagoa, Bay state that bhe British capiiui'^l the entire force Boer force and guns outside Maf eking on the 17 th. It is uuderstood that the relief column was commanded by Colonel X Mahon. The column oovered 210 miles in twelve days.

May 21. General Barton, from Taungs, wired to Sir A. Milner that Maf eking was relieved on Thursday. The War Office also received confirmation of the news from Colonel Baden-Powell. Colonel Mahon joined Colonel Plumer at Janmisibi on the 15th. General Hunter is pushing up the ' railway with supplies, and is arranging , to convey the Mafeking wounded by a hospital train to Kunberley. Lord Methven has left Hoopstad and is co-operating with General Hunter. President Kruger is desperately attempting -to prevent the war fizzling out. Many prominent Boers are declaring the continuance of the war a useless sacrifice of human lives. ' A further British ad/anca is being delayed from Kcoonstad, where the main army now lies, awaiting supplies Colonel Baden- Powell ia receiving hundrods of congratulatory cables from all parts of the world. General Hutton captured fcwaßotha"? —Philip and William— but not Louis Botha, the commander-in-chief of the Boer army. He also captured a Cape rebel named Swaneopel. May 22. The enemy attacked Colonal Mahon in a thick bush on thd 13th, and killed five and wounding 24, including Major Mullins, of the "Imperial Light Horse, *and C. T. Hands, tbe Daily Mail's correspondent. Both were dangerously wounded, and Captain Maxwell, of tne lOmberley Mounteds, severely. Tho Eoers lost more heavily than the British. The Queen has promoted Colonel Baden-Powell to ths rank of Majo.Greneral. New Yoek. May 21. The Herald states that the Transvaal sent a demand to Lord Boberts 1 "^ in which they insist on the immunity of colonial rebels being guaranteed, and threaten, in the event of refusal, to dynamite the mines and destroy Johannesburg. Washington, May 22. ."•Mr MclCinley told the Boer delegates that he felt that his only course waa to persist in a .policy of impartial neutrality.