The Transvaal.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 42, 6 September 1900, Page 4

The Transvaal.

London, Sept. 2. Lord Roberts burned thirty Fm State Farms, and fined the owners of fifty others one-eighth of theit •value, as a punishment for railway raids. Botha has ordered the Mausers to be returned to headquarters until further ammunition is available. Id the meantime the Boers are to uso Martini Eiflos.

Sept. 8. Commandant Tberon's scouts cut the railway in the vicinity of the Klip .River, burned a supply train of 28 trucks, and captured 8g prisoners. General Brabanfc p Ur . sued the scouts and rescued "the prisoners. The recent tornado wrecked most lof the buildings in Maf eking, including the field hospital, containing 150 patients. The ground wan strewn with tents, bedcLrm medioine and comforts. The mshmi* T\ator cariied off:' tli9 soldiers' hits, Many v> ere struck by the flying debris. Several natives were killed or m» jiuvd. General Carrington is returning to llhodesia, owing to a report that a commando is clo&e to the frontier, Tue buighors have reminded Botha of his promise that the last stand should be made at Macbauorp, Be loplied that not to fight again was running away out of shame.

Sept. 4. JLoid Koberts has foimally aniiexod the Transvaal, When the Boers recently hl 6f 6 f up the railway near Krugeisdoip, Lord ttoberts ordered a sudden descent on the village of Roodep^ou, All who failed to give a satisfactory account of themselves weie at'rcbteil. Genera,! Buller is on the north bank of the Crocodile River. Five hundred Boers released and armed the prisoners confined m Klip gaol. Colonel Plumer again defeated the 13o<jrs at Rooikop, capturing <0Q riiie^, 40,000 rounds oi c.v hiAgm, and a large quantity of supplies. The JJoers on August BJst, vamly attempted to destroy the Johannesburg waterworks. General Hart sui|pribed and defeated them. Detachuieats ot De Wet's commando vVGiTfc a, tso defeated iv the fcdme neighbourhood. (ieueroi xiunter is hastening to tho relief of Ladybrand, which several commandos are hardly j pressing Commandant Viljoen iseizod a nuinbei 1 of ambulance mules sent' by General liuller to relieve tho prisoners at Nooiigedacht, Ho utilised the mules to remove his big guns. General Buller is marching on Lydcuburg.