Our Volunteers.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 153, 23 May 1901, Page 3

Our Volunteers.

W AIM ATS I,’ISLES

An inspection parade, ncder T.immmcnt .Tiuticsou, wus hold last ovonin*». but v/.iy not ’.vsl! attended, owing to the wufc wotthnr. Tho ncmnany was put through tbo manual and firing exorcised and exloui/icn movvnn'Miis, The Transvaal. Lonito:, May IS. The death of Commandant 8-v.iii spool was earned by a builrt piercing his f.umhwul. The coinirv-udo eKoiatl a sue r. When la-.t, aeon ChrlidiUiH Do \V <*t was trekking south. After passing Boshof lie h ul forty followers. Forces of the Midland Mounted Rifles on gaged and routed a strong fi.ee at Zwagersb >ek. Ten dead Baers were f mud on the inld. Lieutonani-Ookmc I Gorrioge had succ'.vs I'ul bkirau dies with raiders eastward of iStoniihcrg. Tiie M.u-ouis of TuUib'irdk'e, the organiser of Tnlhbardi ne’a dorse in Aout.li Afrioi, writing fo tlu; Caledcni-.n Socle y, London, f;om South Africa, : —“ Th> Anstmlium arc the best cavalrymen 1 luvo seen out hare yet.” May 20. • Lieh nbe g’s eomman. lo was chased from H irtobecsiefontcin and trekked north. Colonel Rawlinson, alter an engagement between Brukapruit and G ’ysdorp, captured twenty prisoners, twenty-fiyo waggons and supplies, 18.090 sheep, and many oxen and horses. The Boors, with a 12 pounder Creasof gun, two pompoms and a Msxnn, thrice attacked Colonel Bullock between Ermel) and Ameorsfoorb. A desperate effort to capture the gun's failed. Louis Botha evacuated Ermelo and repeated to Carolina. Colonel Bullock removed forty prisoners, including Commandant Mwary, 150 Erin To refugees and their families, and 2900 cattle mid horses to SumdevtoaThe Krmelo Boers reoecupied Ermelo when Colonel Mullock left. Colonel Elliot within a week has sent a large number of refugees and 40,000 horses and cattle to Stauderton. INVBKRGAiwnt.ii, May 20.

In response to a request at a public meeting, the Premier wired to the Mayor“ I am in communication with the General commanding in Soutu Africa, and will endeavour to arrange that the Fourth and Fifth Contingents land at the Bluff. Invercargill and the Bluff have not participate!. in the sending off of any of the New Zealand troops, and the request is reasonable, and I teal assured that an enthusiastic and fitting reception will be given.”