The Transvaal.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 126, 21 March 1901, Page 3

The Transvaal.

London, March 17. Many Boers are daily surrendering at Bremersdorp. Boers are manufacturing ammunition at Pifitersburg. Three thousand four hundred troops sailed for South Africa ou Saturday.

March IS. Kruitzingev has threatened to shoot any captured officers.

The Boer raiders at Uitkomst burnt out a family of the name of Meredith, a Cape scout. Fourie’s force is hard pressed by the British. One hundred and sixty Boers were killed in February and 400 were wounded; there were also 1000 prisoners and surrenderors.

Scheumbrucker enlisted 1000 Germans, mostly loyalist farmers, for the defence of Cape Colony. Fouries has quarrelled with De Wet, and his commando has broken up. It is reported that Fouries is willing to surrender. March 19.

A commando, laagered near Lechtenberg, is in great straits for food and ammunition. Sieyn is near Paardeburg and is suffering from dysentry. Wellington - , .’March 18. The Medical Board appointed to examine the returned invalids have advised the Government that men who have suffered from enteric fever should not be allowedito return to .the front. The Premier 1 , * speaking at an entertainment to the returned troopers on Saturday night, said that as head of the Government he had made up his mind that no matter what happened he was prepared to back up the Motherland by sending the necessary number of troops to maintain the prestige of the colony and support the Empire.

March 19. The Premier has received cable advice from Major Cradock that he has arrived at Brandfort, and has resigned his command of the Second Contingent to Colonel llobin. He states that he regrets severing his connection with such gallant warriors. Christchurch, March 19. The second draft of Canterbury men for the Seventh Contingent left for Wellington to-night. The North Canterbury squad, numbering twentyone, were briefly addressed by Colonels Cordon and Slater before leaving the Drillshed for the railway station. The South Canterbury men, twenty-two in number, pame from Timaru by the dnd the two lots went on together. Everything was very quiet, and there was no display of any kind except a few cheers as the train moved off.