The Transvaal.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 169, 29 June 1901, Page 1

The Transvaal.

June 25,

Details of the fight (it JEfeits? on the 6th show that the British surpi ised a convoy* and the Boers fied. When, however, they saw the fewness of the uiptors* they-returned and charged with great determination, and after desperate fighting" they succeeded in recapturing the convoy. Meanwhile Colonel De Lisle’tf ffe inforce me n t sva rrf vmg, the Boers lay under the waggons firing unflinchingly b; tween the wheals, whi e some inspanneT and drove off the Waggons farthest front the British, who, by splendid gallantry pushing amongst the wheels, trices, and poles of the .waggon*, bayonetted theenemy whenever possible. Tfe Is Key himself took part hi the firing* and hotfc his neighbouring fighters were killed* The fight ended in a senes of hand-to* band encounters and fierce melees.

June, 26.

Lieutenants D war and B Arthur and Captain Matthews, New Zealanders,.have sailed for Engla: d. The bnitally sjamboked Mr J, N P. Botha, member for Aliwal North in the Cape Parliament, for voting £ if the Treason Bill. They also burned his farm.

In a fight at Welgeboow Spruit, Lord Methuen killed twentytWx Boers, took some prisoners, and made a large captuxff of grain forage. A force of Sarrismith volunteers afld Imperial Yeomanry captured upon the farm of Commandant Gert Pretoriua 100 horses, 200 cat* le and 1500 sheep. The Rev. Mr Duplessis, the Hutch minister of Lldcfley, and row an inmate of the Vrecdefort road refuge camjJ> denounces Kruger, and appeals to hitf countrymen to cease the war.

Several Unionist newspapers applaud Mr Seddon for crying shame on English statesmen, whose utterances prolong the war.

In the House of Commons, Mr Brcnfrick stated that there were between 10CMJ and 2000 of the enemy in Cape C I'ony, The BoSrs captured a patrol of twenty* five men at Paardekop on the 16tb, and released them after stripping them at of arms and accoutrements.

Lieutenant J. Bailey, a New Zealander, has been given a commission is tha Manchester Regiment, June 27. Major-General Canipbell’s column ha a Cleared the Hamsmith, Bethlehem and Spitzkonp districts and captured quanti* ties of forage and grain, and 2650 horses, 2800 cattle and 22,000 sheep. TheHaodb, June 27,

Kruger vial'ed Rotterdam, where hw received an ovation, girls strewing flowers on bis pathway.

Hobart, June 27.

The Agent-General has arranged the sale, to be delivered m South Africa, of 1,740,000 pounds of jam and 123,000 bushels of oats.