The Transvaal.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 14, 26 July 1900, Page 3

The Transvaal.

London, July 22. Colonel M. 0. Liiila met and fought De Wefc's commando near Lmdley. r The Boera \vere repulsed and broken into two sections. * Tha Boors wrecked a train which was conveying- 21 invalids, between Ei-ugeradoni and Potchefstrom.,

July 23. A party of Boers, with four guns, surrounded and determinedly attacked Railhead, near Heidelberg, on Saturday. Detachments of Dublin Fusiliers, Engineer and Imperial Yoomanry repulsed the attack before reinforcements were despatched by General Hart. Professor Watson- Oheyne, of Kings College, London, an eminent authority in surgery, in a letter, condemns the absence of an indeyendenc transport for the Army Medical Department in South Africa- He declares that the New South Wales iiold hospital has done the greatest amount of good work during the aampaign. The Medical Department would often have been in serious difficulty without it. The Boers destroyed the -telegraph wires and railway line north of Honingspruit. A British supply train and 100 Highlanders were captured. A battle is impending.

-July 24. General Broadwood had a sharp encounter at Walweilfonfcein, on the 19bh, with a commando of 2000 Boers with four guns, commanded by Steyn and the two De Wets. Darkness prevented the pursuit. 1 Major Moor, of Western Australia, and four men were killed ; Lioutenant Stanley, of the lOch Ilassars ; Lieutenant Tooth, of New South Wales, and 14 men I wore wounded. Eight Boers were I buried.

Capetown July 2e2.2 e 2. In anticipation of reinforcements being seat to Ohioa, an additional 10,000 men are being raised in Gape Colony. • Colonel Little's action was with De Wee's 1500 Boet-s, who had traversed the British cordon. The British casualties wote slight. Wellington, July 24. Major Francis, of the Fourth Contingent, cabled to the Premier, staring thai the ofticors and men under his command are all well, and everything iss satisf-ictoty. Sir Alfred Milner cables that he regrets to report that Lieutenant D. K. L. Tooth, of the "New Zealau-l Contingent, was wounded at P-ilm-hetfcntnin on July 19. No oiticer, however, of mis name can bo found I on the lists.