The Transvaal.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 120, 7 March 1901, Page 3

The Transvaal.

London, March-8. Sir Alfred Milner's sudden doparturo from Capetown for Pretoria -is believed to be connected with the supposed negotiations between Lord Kitchener find General Botha. - It is announced that 80 of Lo>d Kitchener's Fighting Scouts were attacked by a superior Loer force and surrendered after a prolonged tight, sustaining 20 casualties. The report is interpreted as referring to Colenbrander's Scouts, a force recently raised on the Bhodesien frontier. Privates A. A. Dudley, of tho New Zealand Mounted Kafirs, and J. P. iiobevts, of the bough Ktders, died oi enteric fever at Pretoria.

De Wet's inva-dou of Cape Colony has ended. Men and horses are precipitately swimming where tin river widens uear Colesburg bridg". the river is not running rapidly, thoutdijlin flood, March -!. Colonel Thoiaieycroft, after a ru uiinr tight la-uing two days, galloped through

itnd dbp:used eight hundred of aortzng's commando, and Ctptured a ri!i initio of Jewell,-vy and otiev loot. " Mijor-Gaoero r!H;m s i on Feluaiary "ddOi i■iiii.:t-d on De, Wet in the vicinity of Zand Drift, wiiere two i biers were drowned in attonnvie.g to cross the river. Tho attempt was .abandoned.

Steyn and De Wet, with InOO men, swsn; the river at Diliiefomeui, near Goleoburg bridge, on February "2-'Sr:i. The crii'i-i-nt carried many down a con-adorable di-uanc.;. 'Pile enemv, neverthedess, removed p,v ( ; carls ae,d wa.ggons and two ambulances, bat abandoned a number of horses, carts, map-, of Capo Colony and clotlv-s. Mar.y of the !soers w(=re • 0,01 on the oihcr side of the river ; ;d ; .o; •■')' iu >■■■ :oi ntide conoi'ioti.

Ki'ehoiior iilluWi.-d Fouta facilities to eommumea.o with Ivi-u---"!-, and iu: informal the ex-pivsid.-nf that thoto was .1 do-ire for n au'e en fill sides. Kcng.-r his coimnmiic au d wbh (ho Cz T. evgmg him r..> uso his otf nos 'o Peace Convention prim-ipios. IFis-ia ivmFd-d Mr tiger that he commenced the war. I'iij reports that General !;;,itO '>LV spied Uobl-100l ill O.'d'. 1' tO :'" uhle to deal witli roving com mnud.v.. Sir if. Caumbell-F>a'unorma n, speak leg iu OiF.u'd, admitted iii.it, some i'oi-in oi provi ioual tiiuporary govern-ni'-fi:. probably mih'.ary. should precede the ostabii ihment of reprosonia live iosiiisnions in the ennmievod republics If was imperativo thai lb* burghers should bo restored to their farms and giv.ei pecuiiary assistance. it. is oi'l-i.-i.v r. perted lint I>> V\Va

was bo'idc"! oi;' Pieiipjiis, and is now upprtve-oiiig Famvsmuu. Colo ■';•■' iJabin;;ooi tmeart-iod a Krupp gan, a pompom :ie i sou:-; amme.riiiion a; Z-inn! inte'ii). The- Ne«v Y.,rk Tribune's Fro ;---01.-< eoiTosnoodem states tlnl a Coaooii of (Joimnaiui.uKS at St. 1\: let's!-.org mlhoris.. j d ]so:ha ro it tiie Fioor prisoners tire lib-i tied and the :eoeL- pardonod, t.'oe temi-ind pondo'ice of too rvpe.hiir-; uodf-r tho Crown ,p--intcd, a".d the owners restored, to their pnp.a-'.y, a.n.d adds that lord Khc-heiior woaid be willing to grant t-o-so ca-rras. but Britain insists oo an unco, ditiomd capitulation, tho e\-iio of Iv'.-o>,'a' and other repubdeon fti;tliO!i; ! es.

Da Vv'e h . in any evoit. intends to eoulimij tiie gaeriiiu war. March ",. L v irmeli c-iptured a flotcl'diiss c,'an mar Fi-tretief. A coinmaiidc.iK. in the vicinity surrendered v/iiii tifty men on Sj-amr.iay.