The Transvaal.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 162, 13 June 1901, Page 1

The Transvaal.

I o'-'rv'N June 9.

General Bloods opera ioru have com' pelled the Boers • o hide in • he mountains Several commandants Owning large farms are disposed to surrender Four hum dred Australian Bushmen will sail in the Roslyn Castle from Gape Town’ for bourne on Monday. Colonel Wyndhara surprised Commandant Von Reenan at Ringtevlei, capture ing twenty-two Boers. A patrol of Lancers surrounded a farm at S" • ynbnrg, and also captured twenty* two Boers.

A Dutch cdergyrnsn now residing iu Aberdeen, l>os wriUen to the Pre°4 praising the humane treatment of *ha Boer women and ohildreu at Pott El zabeth. June 10.

The Matching branch of tha South Af>ican League held a great meeting, and r- commended the suspen -ion of the Constitution and the suppression of the Afrikander bond.

Nine hundred Boer prisoners have been interred at Bermuda.

One thousand American, and 800 Canadian remounts h-v,- been shipped to South Af> ioa.

General Bullock’s eobimn brought the Erraelo people to Sfanderton. Mrs Bor-ha goes to J/mdon at her husband’s instance to sea Kruger and re' turns to the Transvaal in July. A detachment of Scoboll’a Cape Mounted Ri(l is rushed a kopje, whence the Boats were sniping, and captured a batch of snipes. Fifteen waggonsfti* of Ermelo men and women have be h brought to Stands-ton, including Dr. Everard, who says that all the fighters are willing to surrender if the leaders would permit them.

Sir G. Sprigg, th-? Cape themier, hop* ing to break down racial animosity, is studying impartially, irrespective of party considerations, the development of the colony. Mr Smart, Commissioner o! Works, intends to construct light railways wherever the prosp cts justify, and also to carry cut scientific irrigation,

Lord Kitchener dec!,res that the statement that C donel Wilson captured Beyers’s convoy lait week is withouj foundation. The Times insists, urgirg f.Jin h a. rtuimnhlfl r* O nro**- — be a precise narrative of facts.

Scobell’s detachment, besides snipOrsi captured thirteen thousand rounds of small ai ms ammunition.

Lord Kitchener reports that 2640 Boers were killed, captured, or surren* dered during May. Brants ft nd Da Wet remain at Stands?, ton awaiting Mr Kauger’s reply to theit telegrams. • Claims have been presented to tbs youth African Compensation Commission by Germans who became burghers, but did not fight. They allege that then? double nationality entitles them to German protection and to compensatictt for expulsion. June 11. The circulation ot food stuffs north* wards of De Aar is being restricted to a minimum of essentials lest any should be captured. Lord Kiichener reports that between June Ist and 9th twenty-six Boers were killed, four wounded, 409 captured, and thirty-three surrendered ; 6SI rifles, 15,550 rounds of ammunition, 120 waggons, and 4000 horses were captured,