The Transvaal.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 50, 25 September 1900, Page 2

The Transvaal.

London. September 20. Vermaak, a leading Natal rebf>l, hsxs bpen sentenced to throe years' imprisonment and fined .£l5OO. Tho English Pross re3ents Holland's effusive patronage and signal honours to Kri>ger. The Standard saja Holland's action is provocative and insolent ; the Dutch are ungrateful and can no longer bo regarded as our | friend*, nor have claims to our re- j gArda. ] Lord Eobert3 reports that the Boers destroyed several of their Long Toms , and field guns, and have degenerated 'ttjjjo marauding bands. , • i*CM the First Canadian Contingent ' 500 will return from South Africa, j 'Tho rem&nuer h**ve volunteered to i reoi pip thioughout the oampAiga. j Mr Michael Davitt contradicis f.u%>, sKletijo'ifc thfti ho had been diailtu,- I siuno-J regarding the Boors. Tho "thsilluaionn'^nt was attributed to him by pome Nonoon'oi'mists, who met hioi on his homeward journey from South Africa.

Ssptsmbpr 21. The following casualties are reported : — Western Australia — Private Force, died of wounds. Ngw Zealandoi-^ — J. Siva, severely wounded ; K. J. 11. Lock, and J. Ciu9o, slightly .Wlpunde'l at Wunuerefontein. 'Loid Ejberts c^bk-s that 8000 Boers re^rbatocl norn Koumfci Poort, 700 crujjeji ilie frontier mto Portuguese feur -ir-v, othn-i doser^ed, aud the b^tanea occupied spms on Ltbombo Mountain. There waa general tumult \ when ilia hopalaspness of the otise wa3 rocog'iisod. Gunc-i^l Bundle attacked Bronkhoioifui.iein find capcucod ft g.iu and thirty WiVj^oiio. IX'jll'iiid iv.4 lufonncd Great Bi-Ltmn thfit dho oii'^ul Sho v/ai:>hip 'owing to Krugai's health. Britam rcpliod that it WcV} noti muaded to iiitciforo with A aprinL pcrripom Bholl struck and bruined Ckutr^i i.aiidla without dib-ibling him, Gdrtorals Kally Kenny Hare are pursuit. g in lunding b^nds m she Dooriiberg r.nd Potehefbti-oom districts Loi'l Eobv-TDs reports thpt the police havo'-ducoveved thVo the foi'&ignera at Johanuesbuig intended on July 14th to Lrruder uuarixied officers and police on tha Johannesburg racecourse, ovorpowei the ganiaon, aad jsize ths (Jo^el:nm6^S offices. The plotters Wore acting ia concert with a cornraondo at Swartzkop. On the night of tho 13i.1i 500 plottois were arrested. The evidence agtiinst theua w rt j oubiiiitted ta tho Fo^uign Oonsuls, ■svho coacurred in the arrests. Seventyiiva were valoAbsd on tho responsibility of the Foreign ConsuU, and the k xest vrjce deported. All nationalities in Jolianiiesbn/'g approved of tho step. Lord Robortd states that few foreigneis wore deported, exoopt some employees of the Netherlands Railway Company. They had rafused to work the rai Way undpr British control, and were prowgd to have be9u actively engagedf in fcHfe war. - / The Government of Holland dem^ndi compensation for tho arrest and" deportation of the railway employees. Marauding bands of Boers are in the Orange Bivor Colony, with an enorrcous number of spare horses in splendid condition. Boers at Dekgoa are yainly dsnuanding from the officials cash for their blue backs. Eighteen hundred Boers south of the Koomati bridge are threatening to trek to Swaziland. The mercenaries who were fighting wish the Boors ax.c now taking refuge at Belagoa. They are the scum of tha earth, and aro severely taxing the energies of the Portuguese.

September 22. Boors at Kokpoort captured three ambulances undev Captain Peiking, Privates Mauudi, Donnellan, Hprkness, Henry, and Harknett, of the New South Wales Medical Corps. Women clamoured to have all shot. The prisoners were conveyed to Bustenburg, where' 370 Boers were kept prisoners, for "^refusing to break the oath of neutrality. The ambulance were kept because they eontaiued some Boers, although these had been retained more as curios. De La Bay released Captain Perkins and party, with Privates Board and Tasker, of the New fUouth Wales Bushmen, retaining Private, Norris of the Medical' Corps, owing to illness. Among those released at Nooitgedacht are T. O'Dwyer and T. Sherrock, New Zealand Mounteds.

Capetown, September 22. The Treason Bill was read a third time in the Gape Parliament by 46 to^ 37, and passed. The Council by 12 to 9 endorsed the annexation *6f 'the jeepublics.