The Transvaal.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 101, 26 January 1901, Page 3

The Transvaal.

London, January 22. Fourteen Boers were killed at Taungs on the 14th. Piequetberg is crowded with Dutchmen, selling horses to the •English and surrendering arms and ammunition.

General Babington expelled the Boers from Moktirskraal.

The Cape authorities are straining every nerve to send men to the front. Saddlers are working night and day. Keuter reports that Christian De Wet is still in Orange Colony, arid that the Do Wet who was with Louis Botha in the Transvaal was merely a namesake. The Bo«r leaders are sedulously intercepting and destroying copies of Lord Kitchener's proclamation.

General Clements has withdrawn from a position fifty miles south-west of Johannesburg to Pretoria.

Cecil Smith, a New Zealand Rough Rider, died of dysentery at Mafeking. In a fight at Bushman's Krantz on the 6th, there were sixteen British casualties, chiefly in the first 'Rifio Brigade. British officials collect the Customs duties at Delagoa Bay on all goods destined for the Transvaal, handing 15 per cent to the Portuguese. Bennett Burleigh reports a majority of the board of members comtnißHioned by the Africander leader, Herri man, counsel Kruger to abandon I)is hopeless demand for Boer independence. Kruger is further advised to seek a confederation of the South African States, giving ihw colonies local control on a population basis, and thus avoid a direct Crown Government. Wblmnoton, January 28. Sir A. Milner advises the \cting-Premier that Private Murpl.y, of Marshlands, Canterbury, and Private Moss, of Winchester, both of New Zealand contingents, are dangerously ill, the former at Kimberiey, and the latter at Pretoria.