The Transvaal.
•Loxdox, May 9. Van Pl iyen, a far;net- of Barkley Eastj has been sentenced to two imprisonment, and fined £I,OOO, o$ charges of treason.
Arrangements have been mide to ship 1,700 Boer prisoners to Bermuda. Mr Arthur Balfour, addressing a meeting of the Primrose League in the Albert Hall, London, declared thit the country was unwavering in its determination to bring the war to a successful end. Benson’s column has scouted the country from Mulileburg in the d'rec iiin of Bnossokaal aud Tonsburg, and has reached Bdfist. It had one stiff light, exp filing so no Boers who were concealed in eaves. Five British were wounded, including three officersTremendous quantitiVa of stock and supplies were captured, and many Boers 1 surrendered in ore".-r to sav j th-ir stock. There are thousands of refugees in Middlelmrg. A hundred colcnhD, marching seventyone miles in twenty-six hours, occupied Wcn f erbur<r passes, Mocking the escape of tScheeper’s commando southeast. Captain Hu room be Mth twenty South Australians, soured the country south of Commissi Drift end captured eight Doers some cut He and waggons. Afterwards Captain Hurcomb' and four of his men were captured but were released. Miy 10. Colonial troops repulsed Bcheeper’e commando at Bavraaok-loof river, Ben with 500 nen, attacked Beatson’s camp. The British pompom and Maxim opened fire at close range, killing six. The Boers fied, abandoning their transport. General Grenfell captured Fort Kdipbam, killing nine aud ctpturing forty-five of the enemy. A shopkeeper at Pearston, Cape Colony, has been sentenced to ten years’ penal servitude for recruiting for Con m andsnt Kruitzmgcr. The steamer Moray -hire has sailed from'Cape Town for Australia with 730 returning colonial officers and men. Lieutenant Wvnyard Joss, of the Queensland Cycle Corps, with ten men, while carrying despatches from (Jerstefabrike, captured nine Boers and several waggons.
A nm ii'ipalit.y hao been established ali Johannesburg. The British have destroyedTJirtbeesur'" fo itcin ; 155 women and children belonging to Liebenbarg’s commando were brought to Klet ksdorp. A coin nn operating at Standerton district captured Commandant Delmgeij 2000 nnd 600 cattle. Dedericksen, a notorious looter, hap been captured at VJaklaagte. May 11. A detachment of Taspianian Bushmen, under Lieutenant-Colonel Wallack;, engaged ScheepeTa commando at shock. Three Tasmanians were wounded and one captured. The force re-attacked next day, expelling the Boers from the position without loss. General Vialls cipturcd twenty of Mathew Pretoriou# force. The remainder scattered, and Vialls is pursuing another commando. May 12. Lord Kdchener reports that since May 7th twenty-eight Boers have been killed, six wounded, 130 taken prisoners, 18J> surrendered, and 8000 rounds of small arms ammunition, 230 waggons, iso£* horses, and large cju entities of grain and stock have also been captured. Bydxey, May 12. Advice his been received by that the Guif of Taraut >, with the New Zealand troopi, has arrived at all well.
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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 149, 14 May 1901, Page 1
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