The Transvaal.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 130, 30 March 1901, Page 3

The Transvaal.

London, March 2s. : < General Babbington and Colohpl Stapyleton attacked and defeated De la Ray and 1500 men southwest of Ventersdorp and drove in the rear guard, and at Vaal Bank captured < convoy of guns. Many Boers wen killed and wounded. The British losses were slight. The British displayed great gallantry and dash, capturing two 15-pounders, one pom - pom, six Maxiins, 320 rounds of 15-pounder and 15,000 rounds of small ammunition, 1600 rifle 3, 77 waggons and 140 prisouers.

Numbers of Boers, led by renegade British, are looting stock in Z.iluland. The looters have fortified Inhlazantzs Mountain.

Corporal J. Lamont. Now Zealand B.ough Eiders, died of enteric at Potehefstroom.

During their recent .-attack on Lichenburg severity Boers were Caught in wire entanglements, and most of thorn were shot. Colonel Hunniker's column had a running light with Commandant L >tter and 500 men on Saturday at Vlakfontein. In the House of Commons Mr Chamberlain stated that the Government had no intention of reopening negotiations with Botha. A patrol of the .Johannesburg Mounted Police burned the ljj:sehk>p Hotel on the west of the Hand. Tiie place was a regular depot for Boers. Two police were killed in expelling the Boers.

While General French pressed the retreating Boers in the lUistem Transvaal, fifteen entered Swaziland. The Swazis resented the iev.isi.ie, and killed seven 15 )ers. Tne roit tied and .surrendered to the B.r.ish.

Britain agreed to compensate German subjects expelled from the Transvaal.

The maximum amount of compensation will be .i'2so. The recipients will bo chiefly oiiL-iiis of tho Netherlands Kail way Company. March 27. Kruit;cinger is closely pressed in the neighbourhood of the (Jrange River, Finding it unfordable, he turned southwest. Be la Key's defeat has dismayed the Cape Dutch. Tho prominent members of the Afrikander Bond* advise 1 the cessation of resistance. A hundred of Malan's Boers, on the 21st inst., ambuslied 100 colonial troopers in a rocky defile near Richmond. The colonials surrendered after losing thirteen. They were stripped of arms and accoutrements and liberated. March 23. Lord Kitchener reports, with reference to Do la Key's defeat by General Babington near Ventersdoorp, that General Babington's casualties were two killed and seven wounded. Twenty-two dead and thirty wounded Boris have already been found on tho field. Owing to the rapidity of the pursuit, there were prooabljr many more Boer casualties.

Saturday's operations resulted in General Bubingiou driving the enemy north from K iffirskraal. Mounted troops only continued the pursuit. On Sunday a combined movement of both flanks drove in the Boer rearguard. A convoy was then sighted at Latuvfontein. The Scots Greys, New Zealanders and Australian Bushmen pushed on, the Greys riding down all opposition and frustrating the enemy's attempt to take up a position. Shortly afterwards, when the New Zealanders from the east and the Australian Bushmen from the west rode into the convoy, the retirement became a rout. The fleeing Boers were pursued until the pursuers' horses were exhausted Gunner Bech, of the New Zealand Artillery, has died of wounds at Lichtenberg. Wellington, March 2S.

Private Best, of the Fourth Conting'nt. is dangerously ill with enteric at Potchefstroom.

The Premier has received a cable Johannesburg stating that five officers and seventeen men of the Fourth Contingent have volunteered for further service.