The Transvaal.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 139, 20 April 1901, Page 3

The Transvaal.

! r 'LosrnoN, "April: 16. The Standard's Pretoria correspondent iMates .that no- large :'cbm niandoa with -guns' are now operating, but marauders are active everywhere. Their suppression 'is protracted, but preparations to sweep the tracks mot,-. catnplejely than wan .heretofore pojpible are in progress. Forty Boers at Bosh of solemnly reelected Mr 'Steyn'.as t. Wellington, April 17. Lord Kitchener has cabled to the Premier that the special inducement* offered to officers and rxien of the old remain.,are one atop in rank for officers, and promotion to sergeant for others ' if recommended, and South African Irregulars' rates of pay.

April 17. Mrs Maxwell, the American wife of AL.jor-General Maxwell, Military Governor of Pretoria, has appealed to Americans for funds -with which to clothe Boer refugee wotiieu and children, on tho grounds that British luniis are exhausted.

Schalfc Burger, Botha, Rteyn ai:d De Wet met at Brmelo. The -Timus' Middlebnrg correspondent hints that Stcyi'j and D-i Wetar'e likely to attempt ! to go tc .Europe. 1 The Boer general, Colliers,''who was reported killed tit Li'-htenbarg, has surrendered at Wiiriubaths. Hy states that the Bourn are plundering, not warring. April 18. Sir AiM"ilnor on April 3rd asked far a I'h.irl leave whilo the operations were in progress, or he would otherwise approach the work of reconstruction with lessened efficiency. Mr Chamber iain, while regretting the'necessity of Sir A. Milner's departure! and recognising the severe strain, granted, him threw mouths' leave. April 18. The Pu-mJer h is received the follow ing fab! gr.<m from Lord Kitchener,' dated April 10th: " Your contingents are splendid. Will do my best to carry out your wishes. The Fourth and Fifth Contingents will be ready to leave on arrival of the -Seventh Tim Sixth has just helped to take Pieters burg. It is assumed that the reference to cm-ying out the wishes of the Govern m-nt relates to the request m 11-3 that the New ZeUa-iders should, as i.-tv as pjsaible, be kept tog tliur. .