The Transvaal.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 184, 3 August 1901, Page 4

The Transvaal.

LoifDON, Jaly so. A proclamation which has been issued at Pretoria, abolishes ffoggiog, which I was enacted by law twenty-two, in 189.fi, and repeals the native pass law on the goldfields.

The number of prisoners and surrenderers has now reached a total 30,000. Many of those at 'Bt. Helena have sworn allegiance, and those of their fellows guilty of assaulting them have been confined in a fort. Pour hundred Boers attacked a small column at Ngutu, Znluland, and were repulsed with loss. The British loßti fotfr killed, including Major Edwards, The Hon. W. Brodrick, in the HonSe of Commons, declared that leakage St official news and the publication of state-m-nts conceming impending events, based on secret ofcbial documents, haH led him to refuse the Daily Mail theusual official information isswed from the War Office. The Daily Mail threatens an aci ion if Sir Brodrick ventures on ft public phtform to accuse them of purloiuing documents. July 31. ; General Kitchener nbrth e Middleberg captured CommandantViljoen's pompom, twenty waggons and thirty-five prisoners. General Gilbert Hamilton surprise! CMnmaa'dant Potgeiter's laager ab Wolmarans, capturing all his waggons and causing twenty-one casualties. Geueral Brae? Hamilton surprised Commandant My burgh's commando at Daasiespoorb, and captured twenty-four Bters, including Myburgh, who- was dangerously wdunded. Supplem«ntary estimates covering £7.000,000 have been submitted to "tfce jHousi of Commons, chiefly for civil administration for railways, and for the constabulary in the Transvaal and the Orange Colony. The Ngutu fight was fierce, and lastel all Sunday. The Boers mode desperate efforts to capture a gtm be onging to the sixi,y-seventh Battery. Once the",g]unners were so hard pressed that they galloped for three miles under a hotfire.

It 'is believed that -the "lost heavily, the gan doing much service at short range. Lord Kitchener reports that since July 22nd, twenty-four Boers h-xve been killed, twenty five wounded, 223 taken prisoners,, eighty have surrendered and 18$ rifles, 10,850 rounds of ammunition, 205 waggons j 2700 hordes and large quantities of Btock have been captured. Details of the fight between Krui>zinger and'Colonel Crabbe show that the toiler's horses stampeded, and that without guns, surrounded, and twice omnumbered. Crabbe crept in the dead of night through the'enemy's lines. The South African-Compensation Commission hasdecided that the employees of the Netherlands Railway forfeited the tight of nenerals to compensation. August I.

Many of the Cape- pior whites are joining one of the commandoes in order t& ob am loot.

' The Standard Bank is closing it's [various branches owing to nob buing pi'btected by the military agoinst the raiders.

j Colonel" Charles fciox in a ten day<* clearance of Betlmlie and Thabanchii captured Field Cornet Pretorius, 126 waggons, 1623 cattfe and 64,500 sheep. Colonel AHender Surpised the Boer's at Wagoo&btadlspruit, killing six, wounding threfl and capturing four. St«yn has ordered that August Bth &a& &th shall be set apart for humiliation and prayer.