The Transvaal.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 24, 28 July 1900, Page 3

The Transvaal.

London, July 2-1. Mr Wyndham inforrnod the House of Commons that arrangements were being made at Ueylon Hills for the reception of 2000 Boer prisoners. A Biuo Book has been published, relating to the treatment of rebels in South Africa. Despatches show that Mr Chamberlain suggested to Sir Alfred Miiner that while the Government sympathised with clemency being extended to rebels, yefc, in justice to loyalists, he was moved by the obligation of dufy and honour, and advL-jod th.it ringleaders, promoters of rebellion, looters of properly, commi tiers of outrages, and abusers of the whit' flig be tried by judicial eommibsion, while others, less guiitv, be Lines and disfranshised. Documents found at Pretoria prove that large bribes wore paid to prominent foreigners recently by the Transvaal Oovernmaufc. Mesdames Kruger, Botha, Meyer, and 600 women and children have reached Barberton.

July 25. Tbe Iloers crossed fcho Kiersdorp line south of Seifonteiu on Saturday night in an on<lea\o<u' to junction with another commuido whore rh,Khenosfer joins the VatJ river. During the pursuit, a number ol Boers, who wore clad in khaki, beckoned to threa Australians. whom, when they approached, they shot.

July 26. Lori Tioberfcs occupied llronkorsprtfit on Tuesday. A number of Portuguese official at Ddia^oa Bay havo bson dismisses for assisting in smuggling corned beef, whjch in aconfcrabrand of war, into the Transvaal. General Broadwood on Tuesday attacked the lioers, who were entrenched on the hills south of the Vaal River. His forces captured seven woggons and 20 prisoners. The Mounted lafantry encountered a superior force, and retired. Six British oilicers and 28 men were wounded.

Capetown July 25. The Boer 3 have evacuated all their positions in the Middleburg district, and have moved north and eastward towards Lydenburg, whither Kruger is proceeding. Tha burghers and farmers state that mercenaries alone insist on the prosecution of the war.