The Transvaal.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 180, 25 July 1901, Page 1

The Transvaal.

London July 21. The cap'urod members of the Grants Government belong to the most famuic» section of the Rocr ina'coritents. Rod Huberts, in distributing prizes won at Bkloy, said the South AfriesVi war hod shown the nec sity for good shnofi’-g and thnexu hi ion of individm l inteMig-nee, time rbo >ofdiera were cvniip lied to in very extendi^ onierJuly 22. M-i jor Fine Collin, villi de rudiment's of tho Oth and 15th '•'! minted Infantry and Rs ex Volume-is, nuctnr ally surprisrd Collier’ : co-nnm.ii 10, near'Honing* spruit, rapturing f-nu-t en Boers, includi‘>2 two of General Piin-doo’s sons, bf sides ho s*s, saddßs, till him] amnmn tion. Four hrmdrc 1 Buer-i attacked Colonel Pilcher, mi 'o' cov r of a veldt fire, in the BnlU'i.ntei i di triofc 1 'st month. A, regiment, of mom tod infantry relieved the Yeomanry, who ‘were in a difficult pi's'tion. Guns wore brought in'c action, lho Poors leMring nf.er 'svstainnu> a loss c£ seven bi kd ami twenty-five w un led, Go-era! TbifdK ma cbing to Standerton, r.i.i'ire l for y-t wo waggons and carts, ;I djC.O horses, 3,400 cattle and 31.000 slieoy. Mr Derri 't Ba.-leigh says I hat further enquiry confirms Iho fact that acts bl hulehoty were comm tted at Vlakfonteiri. Sworn testimony wit.h regard to the maker lias been -forwarded to Da la Bey, Recent! y Lmiis Lb 1 ha 'expressed to Lord Kitchener bis regret at the demoralisation and degeneracy of the Boer ranks, and th-j impossibility -vd repressing it. . , Kroger in a rote published in the Brussels press declared that he haS infor red the burghers that international complications were possible but that intervention was Impele:-!', General Bundle’s Yeomanry in Lite Vre.de district fought at close range, killing Captain Botha, and capturing Rich! Cornet Lambard, .Boers captur-’d seventeen of the Soutk African Conmdiulary near Petersburg. Out of the total Orange- River Colony poprd.itkn of 7-5,000, 10,000 r.ve prisoner A 05.000 in refugc-e camps, 17,000 living in i owns held by the British, and 13 000 arc still at I-iige. The Standard, referring to the possibility of a Boer p'ebisci o being taken or the qm-stion of peace, says that if the le-v-trs act and a plebiscite is granted, rt mo;ji necessarily iniilude the Boers now in B idsh bawls, wli se verdict wuulir unduub ediy be a preponderating one. Many persons are forwarding con* dob uce i to Mr Kruger, who is alsb greatly upset by the itcitz-Steyn revelations. July 2.3. Lord Kitchener reports that since July 15th forty-*bree Boer.) have been kill-, b twenty-live wounded, and 105 captured.; lit) have surrendered., and 3100 rounds of small ainunmirion, 162 waggons, 660il horses and iarre quantifies ■ sfo.’l-’ have been ecpiuii-,! Tin-Hon. V,, .j-.xHok aaTommcu k the House < f Commons that i-i'houg;; Lord Kitchener had accepted the offe f i,if u number < i Queens l.mckrs co return to Sou' h Africa to till vacancies in the contingents, he did not as': for any more mounted men, bo : ng perfectly satisfied with the orc-ent numb r. Of t i’f- d. nh scn 1 c:i rj: p«..»i-i.d on nine ai 0.-'ili -ice r r a.; 1 -p. camimu -d i • p-.n ' '■ \ r,r. (.a; Iknnu.hs, and iT... a- v.;ryi,.. : .-.mis to iriiprkomam t. ... In the lions..-, of Conn.nous the Ron. W Biodrick stated that twent* vu ‘ 'yalis't kilone were orde/ ed re nti -ml .die recent Executions of rebels ar. Middkburg. Tbt Sentence was carried out in Lae (iris t Eyard in private. Colonels Campbell and column l , marching from Wiige river tt StnndeiKm, captured -16 009 sheep, %90& cat'.'e, 10,000 horses, 01 waggons, it rifles, 1330 rounds o' small arms ammunition, 600 tons of forage, and man£ ploughs and ovensIn the H-.-use of Commons the Government, by a rnn.jo-i'y of sever-ty seven, secured the remaining time of the sessioh for Government business. The announcement by the ffon, A. 3. Balfour that there wo cl?. be no supplementary estimates is interpreted, to mean thatfurther provision for the war it unnecessary. Featherstonhaugh’a columns havl Teach-d Klerkadorp, having mot wilt (slight opposition. Lord Methuen ik feting oh Featherstonh rugh’s right. Geribral B oo Vs columns revisited the Roaaenekaal district and cka d thi country no-thwards of the railway lire. General French in Cape Goiony ii gradually praasitrg the bands of raiderfe northward:). MELBOURNE, July 25. lir Barton nta’es that the Impetivl Government have asked 'for no morltroops fur South Africa. If they Aid si the Federal Government would give them, but ha saw no hecessi y fr 3 draining Australia of any more bl bar sons. , . , , . •Brisbane, July 23. The Premier has not received a feps to his propoeal to send more troops i South Africa "to replace the Ffth ani Six'h C-'ntingents. Already large nnmber of applications. ' Wellington, July 22. The Premier has received a cable fro rj Colonel Banks, - stating that the S'rt : Oonlihcent have arrived alt Ull 'wdtt. *