The Transvaal.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 168, 27 June 1901, Page 1

The Transvaal.

Lonvqv, June 24,

Privates H. Souchan, A, .J. Thom and A. C. McFarlanc, of the Seventh Ne\t Zealand Contingent, were accidentally wounded near Stand'r on.

Up to last November 7000 British soldiers had appl'ed for permission t 4 reman in South Africa.

Me'srs Marrirnan und Sauer, the Afrik -nder Bond delegates to England, have sailed on their return to CapetownDe Wet is repotted to he west of Kroons! ad. Louis Boi a is nr. Amersfoot, and De La Key is l r* hit' to join him* Lieutenant Lang! y, a Sdhth ‘ Aus 1 fcralianj has been awarde i the Distim gaished Service Order for gallantry-. Fifty-five Boer iamiiies crossed Khama’s Country and surrendered to the British They complain bitterly of Commandant B-. ycr’n tr. atme>-t.

General LTuce Hamltcn’s driving operations in they Oran.'*? River Colony resulted in the capture of ;W0 Doors. He received many voluntary sunenders. Right Midland Mounted Rifles were killed at Waterkkof on Thursday. Six wcr.; wounded, in •lading oho commander m-'rtiilly. Sixty-six were captured. They were sent to intercept Malang commando at UpsaV.'.viigc shock, and it is suuposed that they w.:re surprised, LttT details are to hand of the engagement at R-dtv- on the 6h. Sladon capi ured 100,000 not 10,000 rounds oi small arms ammunition.

De W- t an 1 Steyn recently made unsuccessful attempts to cross the line at Stand-rton and lieilhron.

Lord Roberts pardoned several volunteers who had been sentenced to penal servitude Lr sleeping at their posts. Commandant Barrand V.-nter had arranged with his commando of 100 to surrender, but one of his men informed General Badenhans, who imprisoned Venter, He had two eons, however, who escaped to the British lines at Netino. Calcnbrmder’s scouts are clearing the north-east Transvaal, getting many prisoners, surrenders and waggons. The Boers ore trying to break through the cordons to join Beyer’s force.

Sri-Four hundred Boers, under De Wet, tried to recapture the spoils. They were at first mist,rken for De Lisle’s troops, which arrived later.

The Boer refugees’ camps m the Orange River Colony, besides the nine tor nftUVGo, rGlJITire <l mrpui'vaviva' of eighty-eight tons'of food stuffs. The average rn .rtabty is these oimps is 116 per 1000 per annum, largely a result of Boer disregard for sanitation and the women's neglect of the children. The London newspaper Son says that in Downing street it is believed that General Botha has surrendered. June 25. Private J Ewart, of the New Zealand Mounted In f antry, was accidentally wounded at Paardeplaats.

Lord Kitchener reports an additional forty-one Boers killed, twenty-seven wounded, 170 taken prisoners andseventy surrendered, v. lule 43,000 rounds of small arms ammunition, 261 waggons and a large 'number of horses and stock have been captured.

The surprise of the Midland Mounted Rides at Wa' erldoof was carried out by Kruil zinger at daybreak, just as the Midlands were starting on their day’s march. The fight lasted two hours and a half.

General Pilcher captured 500 horses and a quantity of grain in the Western Orange River Colony. Major Slocum, military attache with the British, reports that if the English had di-played less bravery there would have been many tewer faults and more vicrcries. The slowness of General BulKr’s advance after the relief of Lady, smith was inexplicable. If the Delagoa Bay railway had been cut Kruger would have been compelled to surrender. The British were too mere ful. The pror feFs’ons of surrender after the fall rf Bloemfontein undoubtedly deceived Lord Roberts.

Of the New Zealand Mounted In< f.mtry, Lieutenant P. J. Ryan was killed and Private N. J. A) kins severely wounded at Pain'd Pi rats on Jun© 16th.

Lieutenant lowlos, of the Fourth New Zealand Contingent, ! has sailed for England,

The Hague, June 24,

The Netherlands Government is using pressure to try and induce Mr Kruger to come to terms with Great Bi itain. Auckland, June 25.

The Transvaal flag, captured by the Sixth Contingent on Easter Monday, ha* been forward* (1 by Captain Nigel Mark* ham to Mr John Menz es, secretary and manager of the Northern Club, in a covering. A letter from Captain Marl? ham states ; “We had a merry gallop, but not much fighting, our losses being two officers and two men killed. Give my kind regards to all friends, and tell them I thought they would like to have a moment j of the war.

The Beer flag is four yards in length by two yards in width, and will be an interesting memento for the Club.