The Transvaal.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 151, 18 May 1901, Page 4

The Transvaal.

j London, May 15. Hon. W. Brodrick, in reply to My Bryce, member for Aberdeen South, s ated that Lord Kitchener had recotn. mended the Government of Natal to allow armed Zulus to protect Eululand 5 against Boer raiders,, and unarmed natives acting under British officers t$ • collect cattle outside Zaluland. Commandant epoel and four other Boers were kißed, and six wounded, in $ skirmish near Pearston. A Bluebook has been issued showing that the British burned 634 farms, mill® . and cottages in the Transvaal and Grange River Co'onies for military r- as i*s. The Hon. R. Philp, Premier of Queens, land, interviewed with reference to tho Chartered Corap \ny’a recent offer to Australians, said ho did not consider that a gift of land would tempt Aus? tralians to remain in South Africa, bijt gold discoveries might do so. ‘ The Treason 'Court at Barkly East sentenc'd eight disloyalists to terms of imprisonment r>nging from six months to two years. The Court has finiahefi its sittings. Four i housand refugees are comfortably housed at Bloemfontein. Piet De Wet B guiding Mijor-G-neral Elliot’s column, which is sweeping n >rthjsastern districts of Grunge Eiver Colony, The country is still fully stocked with mealies and fowls, which ri'e columns are collecting. Tho nimbus are bitterly cold, but the veldt is dry. Dutch residents of Pretoria predict that the winter will compel a general surrender of the Boers, May 16. Lategan, a Oolesbnrg rebel with 10(J men, has re-entered C»pe Colony. It is unofficially reported from Rosmerd Junction that Da Wet with q. Long Tom has arrived at Zuurborg range. Major Will’s furoe, travelling forty miles a day from Enkledoorn, overtook a portion of Matthew Fretorious’ conj.mando, capturing twenty-sev-eu. Wellington, May 16. Colonel Banks cables that on May 10tk tho Sixth Contingent returned t) Pretoria all w’ell, but with very few horses fit for duty. He is equipping and awaiting remounts. Tho Governor of Cape Colony cables that Private A. Kelly, of Wade, Auck.land. Sixth Contingent, is dangerously ■ill of enteric at Warmbatha. Auckland, May 16. Captain To ld, D. 5.0., who returned from South Africa yesterday, slates that should an eighth contingent lie required, fully 300 of the returned troopers are ready to go on active service again. He himself has sent .ill his application f r a commission in tho event of another contir'gent being raised. Captain To I<| return' to ‘Wi’ington shortly on official jusiUe.-..!.