The Transvaal.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 198, 5 September 1901, Page 1

The Transvaal.

Losdon, September I. Measles are raging in the soneeatrfe* fcion camps. Of 1068 deaths in July 863 wave those of children. Everything is beiag done ton the comfort of the sufferers regardless of cost. Goods for commercial purposes to th® value of £1,000,000 hare been imported to the Transvaal during the half-year ended June, Women looted Jagerefontsia, convey* ing to the farms everything of va'oo. September 2. The Waterval-Humanskraal train was derailed in a cutting. The Boers, firing at dose Quarters, killed ten and wounded seventeen out of the escort of forty-five, chiefly belonging to the Wests Biding Beglment. Many Boers have turned Sing’s evidence in connection with the public court-martial at Pretoria on oathbreakers. Evidence was forthcoming that they rejoined and conveyed to the commandoes arms aud clothing by night. Several trials are pending. Commandants Hertzog and Latigao have evacuated Colesbsrg and Petrcsville districts, and are now in Orange Colons’* All the families of the Boers on commando will henceforth be tranferred to refugee camps along the coast railways. The main lino will thus bo available fof feeding Johannesburg as before the war, September 3. Only 100 Boers remain in the Middle* burg, Craddok, Graaireinet, and Stoyns** burg districts.