Grand Christmas Carnival.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 89, 27 December 1900, Page 3

Grand Christmas Carnival.

The catnival now going On at the drillahed still continues to draw eager crowds of eager sightseers. Yesterday and last evening the building was taxed to its utmost capacity and the various stallholders, with their assistants did splendid business. Despite this the stalls are still laden with valuable articles and a3 the carnival will be continued during i the week we urge all who have ( not seen> this wonderful show to pay It & visit &s early as possible. The committee has decided to make no charge for admission. A.ll are free to walk in and see the carnival j which QyeutTtvery evening ftfc -7. j

December 22. The raiders retire when" they encounter opposition. Their main object is to obtain supplies. There hag been an snormoug oneentration of koopa round the section of Cape Colony invaded by fche Boers. The invasion is largely 3 ttributed to the effect of the Worcester Congress and Press incitements on the minds of the invaders, rather than to the aots of Dutch Colonials. General French on December 19* expelled 2500 Boers, with fouc guns, and a pompom, from four positions at Thorndale. north-west of Krugerdorp, killing 50, and wounding many in the subsequent rout and flight. General French's casualties were only li wounded. 4. proclamation has been issued warning all of the penalises of rebelling. - Previous offenders renewing their assistance to the Boers will be treated with exceptional severity. The War Office is despatching to South Africa 800 mounted infantry next week, and two cavalry regiments as soon as transports are ready. • Recruiting is being expedited of 10,000 Colonial police. Detachments are leaving as fast as they ire formed. De "Wet is near Fieksburg. Ouring his recent dash he lost fully 50 killed and 100 - were taken orisoners. After General Clement's reverse .t Nooit£,edacht many Doer women jorcd and h suited the wounded. They behaved like maniacs, and ref'i&ed to give any aid. The American Consul at Tapeown consider, the war practically >vei\ He praises the handsome ■vufcmeni of the Boer prisoners. Mr Stead, the editor of the Leview of Beviews, after an interview with Mr Krugoi*. declares that lis intention to peek arbitration has )eon abandoned, and the Boers will -.bmifc if guaranteed a constitution to that of Australia.

December 23. Details of De Wet's danh describe ifc as one of his boldest conceptions t itd'finesli dashes in the campaign, tfe led 2500 men northwards ohrougb Springbaanek, an unbroken l^vei pass, four miles broal, fifteen 'dies to the eastward of Thabanehn. Two fortified -posts occupied tha entrance to the '/ass, T homeyeroft's irtillery waiting on a hill to the o.istwai'd of the nek. De Wet wag 'Apparently corniced, expecting Jeneral Knoxs force to come up -nili him in an hoar. - The Boer General despatched "Taasbrook to feign an attack on Victoria Nek, soath of Thabanchu. He himself with 2500 men 6 al loped in open order through Springbaanek. Steyn and Piet Fourier led a charge under a rapid fire from the British guns and rifles. The Boers mounting a pass to tha east encountered Thorneyeroft's fire, and galloped along the foot -of a hill on the west side, where the fire of only one post was effective. Da Wet brought up the rear of the column. Altogether it was a piece of magnificent daring, and - its success was complete, despite the loss of a 15-pounder, a Pom-pom and twenty-two prisoners. Haashrook's force meanwhile scattered helter skelter, the Welsh Yeomanry galloping amongst them and using their revolvers and th c butt ends of their rifles freely. The ammunition limbers were driven through the enemy's- fugitives, the gunners using their revolvers freely . The British have re-occupied Venterstad. General Brabant, who has been at Capetown, has-been ordered back to the 'front.

Wellington, December 22. Major Craddock, now with the New Zealanders in South* Africa, has been promoted to LieutenanfcColouel,