The Transvaal.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 178, 20 July 1901, Page 1

The Transvaal.

London, July 16. The captures it Reitz infeludei BreKner, Secretary to the Treasury'; Ac’tok director of telegraphs ; and Commandant t) i viil. There was ’£looo in the tr&surj be Wet was absent. A Boer prociaihatioft issued kt L(4f‘ berg aiiihorised surrenders in batches t 6 'recruit_ in refugee camps, and tHek rejoin the 80-r forces. “Oiiids” in the Duly Nows pleaJk tbo cause of Olive Schreiner, who ife represented as imprisoned in a hut surrounded by a Wire fence, and guarded by sentinels. Mrs Schlakbiirgher has been takCU to Pretoria. Lord Baglarr, tlhder-SeCretary for Wilt states that the Government are send-'ng k committee ot 1 .(hes to the refugee campk to report on their condition. Eighteen of Scobell’s prisoners havp b*eh sent t 6 Grkffreinet t 6 be court"* martialled. July 17. Botha hat protested to Lord Kitchenet against the execution of rebtla. The Hon. W. Broderick, in the House of Commons, stated that the D ;ily Maii’i description of Lord Kitchener’s intentions whs unfounded. ffE\v York,'jiity Ifi. 2300 horses have lef New C leans for South Africa, and large purchases 61 mules have also beau made. \Vklunoton, July 17. Members of the F.fh Contingent presented Surgeon-Captain Thorins with A cutlery and pla’te cabinet knd silver Bpiri l -stand, and the officers gave him k mantel clock add silver cigar case, as acknowledgements of bis services to the Contingent in South Africa, especially id hia fight with fever at Beira. Trooper G. R. Miller, of the New Zea'land local forces, has been appointed k second lieutenant in the Royal Artillery. The clearing up o‘f the Ea -tern Transvaal proceeds steadily. Two thouSknd rkfOgoet are ehc imped ekstwards of Pretoria. There are indications that thkre is ft substratum of truth in the Daily Mail’s statement, as to Lord Kitchener’s intentions, inasmuch as Lofd .Kitchener ball been eparing cavalry in favour of YeOmanry and colonial Rough Riders, wh6 are so well suited for finishing the cant paign and far police duties. CA'f’E i o\Vn, July\7. Pir G. Sprigg, addressing the Vigilance Committee, said the situation at the Cap 6 . was brighter than sit any time during tb& war. Communications were parsing between L rd Kitchener and th*e C<*pi Ministry, and th‘e result, be hoped* would end the warfare. It had been irap6«s?ble to summon burgher forces, kg the Dutch were imtrua’tworlhy, and werl often rebels at h r art.