The Transvaal.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 176, 16 July 1901, Page 1

The Transvaal.

Londov, July 1L Arnonj; the New Zealanders awarded distinguished con Ir.c msdal's for bravery is Private Langham, of the New Zealand Rough Eiders, for gallantry at Vaslbank' The Daily Mail pub'ishes furt'ier ipl'iers' letters confirming the shooting of wounded at Vlakfontem.

An oflk-ial v sited the Boer refuqsa ctiiipa reports tmt everything ie s Itisfactory.

Jolyl2. ,In the Hoimc of Commons ths H>R W. Brodrick stated that in response to his teleg-am< of inquiry vih reference to the. trai.U of U r .a':aGe'd stajome.'iti, Lord jJutchcrier hid wired that he r eovi.ve<J tHe lestim-my of seven men who saw ilia B;>tr< shoot wounded men at Vlakf-ntdn Tlie ITon W. Brodrick added that an or le - had been g ven fg take the evidence, of th se men on oath.

Asa rtcult of ni;jht operations fifr.y Boers were 'captured and eighteen

surrendered nsir F.denburg. Lord Mi-thnen, near Zeerust, surprise! and captured a la containing fortythree Boers, t\v nty-nine rifles, 2000 rounds of ammunition, thirty-eight wagons aid 600 bags of grain. He alac collected forty Boer families. The IWlyNew.i &,mm that sixty Brandt fort Boers, dej ctod and ragged, were brought into Bo mfoniein. De Wet's commando is near Bloem* fontdn.

Li the H iu-e of Commons the Hon W„ Brodrick announced that Lord Kitcheher'a Hi phtelvs contained ho suggestion regarding the independence of the late Republics, the point whereofe the peace negotiations failed. In the House of Commons the Right Hon J. Chamberlain said in reference to BothVs inquiries from Lord Kitchener with regard to the peace that Britain declines a'l liability ids debts contracted since the war, but does not repudiate State loa is issued pre; viously, so far as can be provided out ot the Transvaal funds.

Lord Landsdowne informed the Housethat Bri am intends to differentiate between "bona fide investors in the Netherl'ind-< railway before the war ar.d those investing later. T'ie foreign Governments had communicated with Rrit lin on ihe subject. >. \ . . July 13. Botha ha-i informed Kruger that there are 7000 Dutch rebels in the Boer ranks;. and *hey are receiving f esh accessions (lai 'y- . . . . , .

Lord Salisbury, in acknowledging tho re< Union carried at the meeting held aj the Guildhall in support of the Govern* ment's action with legard to tho South AfYicau war police, 9aid that nothing would ten! more to prolong the hopelesS than the encouragement derived from pro-Boer u teranees. The (government were firmly determined tc bring the war to a final successful isiue.

After discussion iti both Houses cf Parliament respecting the accuracy 6'f the rcpo;t3 of Reuter's agency wit& reference to the reported capture o\ Commandant Bey-r's c >nvoy at Warm' bill lis by K'tchenei's scouts under Colonel Watson last month, Lord K:tehencr admits that the scouts sur" prised arid dispersed Pretorious' (not Beyer*t») commando while escortiag a convoy.

The Daily News stales that a Britisi force is operating from Kroousta H southward b->wardsßrandtfort', where De Wet'l commando is. • The Boers 'attacked a body of con"Etabulary . posted at Houtkop, norths west of Vereaniging, and capured ati old soven-pounder gun. The were fcvent.u>;l!y driven off. Three of the constabulary were killed and seveA wounded'.

Lord Kilshener explains i:at wb n . ?)<* contradicted the discomfiture of Hayei*t commando hs was unaware th it any* tlvng had be-n telegraphed relating tc t'ne dispersal of Pretorioiis' forces weaN ward of Warrrfbatbs. He adds that he deprecates magnifying minor successes. Berlin, July 12. Instead f f indignation being arouses over the Ylakfontein affair, Anglophobii js ibe result, the German Press declaring tli't Great Britain is reaping what t-h& has sown, the act being one of retaiiat o i for farmhouse burning and the swvej.ujjj up cf the enemy's property. NewYoiik. Julv 12.

Duploy, the Boer who was nmsted a' New York, was fined as a stowaway. A i American sympathiser p>id the fine anr guaranteed that he would apt becoiae I pamper. .