The Transvaal.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 22, 21 July 1900, Page 3

The Transvaal.

London, July 17. Lord Boborta despatched a force of troops to dislodge ihe Boers from the kopjes to the north and north-west of Pretoria, but tho enemy evaluated portions without, firing a s'nt. The Boors are reported to be so short of food that they allowed most of the Lincolns and Soots ] Greys captured near Pretoria to escape. '.

July 18. President Krugar is greatly discouraged by the surrender of Rnstenburg, and Botha is discontented because Krugar is retaining the. big guns at Maohadorp. "When the picket of Yorkshiremon were surprised near Lindley, they fought till only six men remained i ible to defend thera selves, and those with their bayonets alone held the enemy at bay until they were relieved.

July 19. The Royal Irish Bifloa, West Australians, Vau^hans, and New ZpalanJers on Monday gallantly repulsed repeated and determined attacks on General Pole-Carew's position near Protoria. The Boers lost 15 killed and 50 wounded. Four wera oaptured. Lieutenant Findlay, of New Zealand, was severeJ-y wounded. Captain L. Bourne and Lieutenant i J Garaeron, of the New Zaalanders, are missing.

: Albant, J'ulj 19. The Brussels paper La Reforme, a copy of which has been received by mail, publishes an interview [ with Machot, a Belgian, who declares that Jouberfc suicided at Olencoe. He says that he heard Kruger violently reproaohing Joubert "with failing to capture Ladysmith. A few days later Joubert was found dead with his hands clenched and his features distorted, having, it is Asserted, taken poison.

Three hundred South Australian Bushmen brilliantly participated in the recent fighting round Bethlehem which resulted in the capture of the town. The Yorkshire Light Infantry, Munster Fusiliers, and Royal Irish Regiment were also conspicuous with bayonet feata. The Royal Irish carried the main position, and captured the Boers' 15-pounder.

' „ Capetown July 17. A patrol of Australian Bushmen encountered a party of Boers on the 13th,

Auckland, July 18. Trooper Smifeh invalided from South Africa, was the first of the Waikato contingent to return. He arrived at Cambridge to-day, and got a great reception. The population turned out en masse, and the town was gay with flags.