The Transvaal.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 166, 22 June 1901, Page 1

The Transvaal.

Losnow, June 18.

The prfsonere of war to d;\te number 19,242. Elliott's prisoners are in a deplorable condition, some wearing women's skirts.

It is rumoured tha* M* Kruger i<? gelling Transvaal and S'Jiuh Africaa securities, and reinvesting them in Consuls and French rentes and other Continental stocks.

Vi!joen commanded the Boera at Steenkove- pruit.

(JjomtnuudanJ: Mxtfrx, wj'h 150..m.pn» surrounded a British patr d, killed two, wounded two, andoapfcurad iwsn'-y, A has. Roie in pursuit, of B*yer'* for.se, in a Jaa t -er in a deep kloof at Z .ncl riverpoort, north-west of Warmbithq. Two attempts to didoige him proved resultle-is. In the House of C mirnons, the Hon W. Brodrck Pb»tcd thU there werfl 37,731 people in t!ie Transvaal c mcentrat.ion camps, including natives. 2524 in Natal ; 20.074 in Orange River Colony j and 2490 in Ca,pe Colony. Mr Lloyd George moved an adjournment and complained that the refugee 3 were not treated with consideration.

Sir H. Campbell-Bannerman declared that concentration was hacboroiia.

Mr BVodriek hotly denied any inhumanity. Their extreme leniency had protr-ict«»d the wu\ The hig mortality in the Johannesburg oamp

May was owing to tijoastai, tha women refusing to follow the dietary direction given. Every mail brought ooruplainta that it.j'idici m pro-Boer speeches were encouraging reaistence.

Mr flaldane, amid Liberal interruptions, dealired that the Governmeafc were showing all pos-ibJe humanity. The motion to adjourn was negatived by 253 to 134. Fifty Liberal Imperialists abstained from vofcmg, including Messrs Apquith, Gey, Haldane, and McArthur. Fifty-six Irish members, Sir W. V Haroourfc, and Sir H. Cambell. Bannermau voted with the minority. June 19. Eight commandoes, comprising 1508 men are operating in the midlands of C<.pe Colony, 303 are operating in the Western provinces.

Heidelberg volunteers captured 9, laiger containing nine Boers and 5200 nl.«- - ~<3 /.otilfl are loading at" 0.

Colonel Scott's railway guards at Haartlebestepan, in Western Transvaal, captured much stock, twj ws-ggons, riflea and ammunition.

Sergeant-Major Eyre, of the Fifth New Zealand Contingent, has baoa granted ft commission in the Yeomaary« The troopship Bavaria has sailed foS Soivh Af ica with 950 mon of thq Manchester Regiment avid 630 of tho Sont.h Staffordshire militia.

KruHzinger, at Klcinfontein, threatens to commandeer all persona giving information to tho British.

He states that he does this in virtue of a proclamation annexing the northern povtion of Cape Colony to the late Orange Irce State at the beginning 3$ the war.

June 20,

The Standard's correspondent say* that 160 Boers under Commandant Muller with 200 resorvee, Eurrounded the Victorians poured in a hea*y fire an 4 then rushed the qamp. AU was over it* a few minutes. ( MulW also led the rush at Helvetia when Viljoen made his attack. The Tagus Bailed from Capetown 011 "June I3th, with the Fourth and Fif fe New Zealand Contingents, numbering 638 officers and men, also Lieutenant t>. F Lundon, of the Second Contingent, The transport is due at Wellington 09 July sth. Private J. M Cotter was killed, D, Manley severely wonnded, and J. H. Templet'-n slightly wounded at Heme!fontein. Jesse W. Smith was Blightly wounded at Eejtfontein. All were Nt* Zealanders.

Five columns have commenced clearing the area hounded by Bloemfon 1 ein, Brandfort, Vet river, Winburg and Thabsmchu. Large captures of stock and grain have been make. The Boers sentenced Commandant Pfe| Fourie to death for attempting to sur, render, but De Wet commuted tha sentence to imprisonment. Three thousand were admitted by ticket to a pro-Boer meeting in Queeu'f Hall, 800 foreigners, market porters and Battersea gas-workers being engaged to keep out oi>pon<'nts. A.large force of police assisted to prevent the efforts $Q rush the hall. Mr presided. Ha referr- $ to Earl Milner as a wretched penny ri itner, and declared that the British soldiers were led by geese. Mr Merriman was absent through indisposition. Messrs Sauer, Lloyd, George Clifford, Dillon and Kelt Hardie. denounced the war. Kruger and D 9 Wet wore cheered, and Mr Chamberlain hissed. Dissenters were instintly ejecte<% The crowd outside, estimated at 10,000, tried to pain, admission, and sang patriotic songs until rajn dispew-d then« Some collision with pro-Boers ooourred, j the latter being hustled and bonneted. Wswjng'ion, June 20. The Premier ha,* been advised tbs| during the recent fighting by the SeYentif Contingent Sergeant Cotter was* killa<4 and Privates Templeton ant| Hulmo (Wellington) wounded.