The Transvaal.
London, May 23. A blockhouse opened fire causing a panic among forty Boers who were at:o.inptiug to cross tha lino westward of Put. A load; d waggon wai captarel. Vilj-«eu's conim.U'do has crossed northw,irn, going to RUetio-'ter K<-«p and to the bush veldt wliere food is plentiful. May 24. It is reported at Delagoa th *t in a f >ig fight, on M<y 16, near Ba barton there were sixty-one Bri'ish casualties. '! he Boers also suffered heavily. Ti>e news is unconfirm-d. The Boe-s kd'ed Private Archibdd Wook.ay, a'N..'W Zealand Eough Rider, while attempting ti/eb'cipe. May 25. Little England rs arc incensed that the annual sessions of the CYmvpf gationaland B ptist Unions should be silent regarding the w-'.r G-sner-1 Vitjoen is between Bethel and Ermelo Field Cornet Vdj >cn sustained losaes while attempting to cross the line to wardd Sabi iSchalkbu' ger Ir-.s trekked to Aies'erdam. General Blood is cdlecting a daily average of sixty prisoners and surren. ■ lerers. T.ae British, finding Amersfoort !:s:-rte;l, la : d an Commandant J übsrt and a Magi-it rate named SparivitiT, with five Boers, entered, bi't i)>'i'od \v!u;n -'.eah-aiged. Jou'oert and the M xgistraie woro wounded. The Sos-iv rei-fneed, nv.d the British retired to Glaask"p with three prisoners. Jinalphea, late Tran-'vaal P-"tmistor-General, has started en a nii-sion from to Botha. A British agent is' shadowing him, hoping to frustrate his minion. The Highland L : ght Infantry surprised a b?-;ei' n the V.r»Mdfnrt dis'rict, Orange •J ioiiy, ktlhiig B.e-:-, wounding i tiii'teen, a''d e '■! ,i.t «' *■•■
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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 155, 28 May 1901, Page 3
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251The Transvaal. Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 155, 28 May 1901, Page 3
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