The Transvaal.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 161, 11 June 1901, Page 4

The Transvaal.

London, Jnne 6.

Thirty-four miles westward of Warm, i bath*, Colonel Wilson, vvi)h 240 of K-itchener's Scouts, defeated 400 of ;j Beyer’s force, who were escorting a ; convoy. They killed thirty-seven, anlj '.'■p ured everythin;', including B,COO ! e-,ah', eighteen waggons, and an 1 auib.d.uice. Th'-ee British were killed, aud fifteen wounded. ;

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord RoberC y , and Lord Milner, have app a’e l to the public for £.10,030 to erect the eastern portion of the Capetown ■Cathedral, as a memorial to those who have fallen in the war, and as a thanks- : offering.

The King has agreed to lo t patron t-{ the fund. The late Queen hai approved of the idea.

Kruilzing t has retired in the direction of a column under Major-General Elliott.

Many Johannesburg miners have struck against the present rate of 5s a day and rations. Jme7. German Red Cross societies refus-sd the Transvaal Central Commio.ee’s request for another ambulance, on t ! e ground that the situation did not justify international assistance. The Boers are looting and burning houses at Hbivismith belonging to the local guard, within a mile of the t;wn. The Natal Assembly, by a majority of one vole, shelved a mourn in favour of recommending the teaching of the Dutch language in Government schools. Micf.eocc.sß, June 7.

Trouble arose during the voyage of the troops aboard th.» Moraysh rs irom the Cape. A number of the men wo e imprisoned for refusing to do saikr'B work, and their comrades, wrecking the guardroom, releasr-d them. Lord Kitchener’s scouts crptuced eleven Boers.

Major Knott took sixty prisoners and 1 Commandant Van Eonsburg has surrendered to Colonel Grenfell, Me Ei'odeick stated that there are thirty-one soldiers in convict prisons i guilty of sleeping at their posts, causing j loss of life arid supplies, " j Colonel Wilson captured TOO prisoners \ near Wannlutha. \ Juneß. •' General Benson, marching to Carolina captured forty Boers and drove many 1 into the hands of the other columns. , When tracked to the ravines the Boers

simply surrendered. Surgeon-Captain Neiil. of the New Zealand Mounted Rifles, has sailed for England. Mr Brodrick, in the House of Cora* raons, announced that Lord Khcbener was free to receive ami transmit any/ Boer proposals for peace, but neither Lord Kitchener nor the Governmjnt would discuss independence. He said ho was glad to see that the statement that two DriPshcrs had been shot ab Vlakfonteih for not revea'ing the working of guns was unfounded. Lori Kitchener was inquiring into the origin of the story.

June 9.

Colonel Scobell sirptisrd a laager of 500 men at Diapfontein. and captured twenty Boers, 160 horses, and a quantity of the Jamestown loot.

By a collision on the Pietcrsburgh railway nine soldiers were killed and several injured.