The Transvaal.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume II, Issue 155, 29 May 1900, Page 2

The Transvaal.

London, May 24. The Daily Mail states that Genri Bethune heard that che Vryheid ram from Zululand to Newcastle was «I<, of the tneiny, and he selected it as ft shorter way to return. Captain E. D. Goff, who commanded ] squadron waa too precipitate, and \ri entrapped by a strong force of Boeu The enemy's Maxim's mowed dot the British, who fought to within J yards of the Boers' rifles. Capt»i Goff was killed. Reuters correspondent states t!s of the squadron of 69. 66 were liillj or wounded, and only three escap«d, ■ It is expaeted that the Mafekinj Kiniberley railway will be repoinj and in full working order within ( fortnight.

May 25, The Boers report that out of GoS'i force of 71, 27 were killed, 25 wound^ 11 were captured, and two Majk were abandoned. The Tira«g correspondent at Delago, Bay says Kruger favours surrendtt alleging that continuance of the wi on Imperial property will inflict gm| hardships on the burghers. He thron on Taib commandants the onus of tii final decision.

May 26. Thirty trains to and from Pretaa to Pietersburg, the northern termina of the Transraal railway, are runnur daily. Major-General Hunter will open tin Vryburg-Mafeking line within a ir«t Trains are already running befcwea Maf eking and Buluwayo. Mr Stejn persuaded the Free Statoj to continue to resist, declaring that Lord Roberts' clemency proclaimtiot had been rescinded, and tnat all win surrendered now would be depoitedH St. Helena. Lord Roberts' vanguard crossed li» Vaal river on Thursday. The Bo»n are retreating. A servant accidentally shot Lieut Roberta, a nephew of Lord Robert!, The shot inflicted a severs wound ii the knee. Lieut. Roherts wai si Alodder .River at the time. ) Snytnan is entrenching his forcul Bnltfontein, ten miles east of Mafc!riD{. Eleven thousand troops enabfirkfa South Africa in June. Thirty thousand veterans applied for enrolment in thl Boyal lieserve Batlalioa.

May 27. General lan Hamilton has rtachfJ Boschbank, near Hindlique's Drift. [Boschbank is on the Vaal River.] Portugal has removed the erabirgl ; on food stufi* for the Transvaal.

I Sydney, May 26. The New South "Wales Contiugwi of Imperial Bushmen have arrived il Beira. All are well.

' Melbourne, May 25. I ' Lord Roberts, referring to the Ay* tralian soldiers, said. " You see mj opinion of the Australian troops. I' put them at the front and intend Jl keep th&m at th 6' front."

Wkijjsgton, May 25. The Hon. J. G. Ward has receive* a cable from Sir A. Milner stating tbii i the Paparoa, which left the Cape of ! May 19th, has ou board the following New Zealand invalids : — Captain H»J' hurst, of Temuka; Sergeant Bond »^ Corporal Syraes, Sergeant Bopi belongs to the Auckland Mountti Rifles, and Corporal Symes to t« Christ College Bides. Both are m»w' bers of ihe First Contingent. Troop« Tayler, who arrived in Melbourne bj the Moravian, Buffering from rbw^ matisni, has boen sent to the hospiw there. f

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