The Transvaal.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 144, 2 May 1901, Page 1

The Transvaal.

London, April 29,

A Reuter message states that) tfaf surrenders to Colonel Plumer include exLanddrost Munnik, a great inciter of the Cape Dutch, also bia son, the Stata; engineer. Mr Reaves has induced the War Office to order Jrom 500 to 1000 New Zealand hirsts for South Africa. Twenty-five, of the Vr'nce of -Wata Light Horse kept 403 80-re «t Bay for eight hours, fifteen miles from Rroonatad killing fourteen Boers. After their ammunition wa? exhausted they wer«. captured, but were subsequently rt leaded. Schalkbarger and the Government have fl*d to Leypdrrp. Seventeen of Kruiizinger'B commando looted a farm in the Cradook district »rid ppnnkled stryohjj3i}# in the food which they were anable to remove. Bofre exploded the railway line in three plaoes between Graspan and Bel? mont, and en'ered the Belmont station in search of food, retiring to the kbpj*s when i"nfiuocf'B!-fuj» Major-General Bindottrßlood's movement in the Middleberg district resulted in largacaptures of sto k and transport*, and numerous surrenders were received. Commandant Shoeman, with a handfg ot followers, just escaped. Commandant Beyers, occupying % strons yosjfc'on at Zwaartkopjes, in the Waterburg district, intercepted a com* mando who intended to surrender t*» i}jo British, and compelled it to join him. •■ - ; April 30.. Botha is U Ermelo, and Dartnejle'? column is moving thither. The Boere are surrendering in small parties in all quitters. General GrenMl has taken further prisoner*, and 38.509 cartridges have been discovered, together with sever 1 offi. -ia't doouments, and % large number of bank notes, at "ftoosenr kaal, General Byng, fighting southwards of W- pener, killed five t-nd captured two, Twenty Boers surrendered at Lydenburg, Commandant Scherpers burnt tl»a residence of Dr Moolman, a DutchLoyalist at Zwagel hoek, and looted his _, stock and destroyed wool (;o the vajue of £3OOO. The magistrate's staff, with twen'y poliop, at Malalatini, Zulultvnd, repu'setj 400 Boers. Five of the defenders wera killed and two wounded, Two 3oerf were captured.