The Transvaal.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 15, 5 July 1900, Page 3

The Transvaal.

London, July 1. De "VVot's force is veiy active in the aasWn pait of t'no Orange River Colony, and has captured 100 British piisoneis m Be\eial minor fight 1 ;. Luid Mathuon is pursuing the Boars to-naidLindley. Tie c.pUned SOuOdieen undSOQJie^d of cattle. A Bopi* oonvoy for L'ndley was {Jorcoly atto,ck ra d on Tuesday, but esenpad after i hoavy rearguard action. Ten British were kiliou, and four officers and ufcy men wou.idad. A belated mossa^o from I v ir Winston Clmreirll, in the Morning Post, as to the lua'inor of tho mlGv.a of the officors at the ocoup itio'i of Pretoria, states tli-it C'r.p'jain the JDake of Maflborougli, when the Britiah entered Pretoria, gtvllopod to a cage like structure where ihe Butijih oilioc-rs were confined Though unaocouipaniod by any troops, he ordered ins eonnnandaot of the prisoa to roleags tho ofUcei-j forth with. The commandant detnurxed, bui; at List complied. They then overpowered tha gunrdd and imprisoned the a in the cnge.

July 2. Lord Roborts endorses the opinion expressed by Conan Doyle, that, upder the oircu'iifltaneps of unprecedented pressure of sickmess and limited means of thd ineJioal dr pai'tment, they had ootabatted a violent outbreak of typhoid fever very well.

July 3. Major General Clements seized and burnt a Boer camp near Lindley, losing two lulled Rnd 13 wounded. Lord Roberts has ordered civilians returning to Johannesburg to retire to Bloemfontein. Major- General Colville has been ordered to return to Englaud. The Daily Mail states that Us return is in consequence of Heilbron and Lindley sUstiicts being in an unsatis factory *e&tate.