The Transvaal.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 103, 17 September 1901, Page 4

The Transvaal.

London, September 12. Tiro hundred and fifty Boers ear* rounded Major Marshall's Twelfth Mounteds at Behefinck. The party trai in a light corner until Colonel Barter sent some Yeomanry ta relieve them. ficheeper's force is burning the houses of all serving with the Cape Burgher Guards. His commando consists almost entirely of Cape reoruits. The Dordrecht volunteers surprised ft party of Boer officers at a farmhouse, kill* ing two and wounding General Sinuthi who escaped. Colonel Borker discovered 7000 Martini cartridges, which were buried in the 8 rand water basin. Immense quantities of grain were ooncealed in caves. General Methuen defeated Vantonder and De La Bey at Marico, killing eighteen and capturing forty-one. September 11. Scheeper's rebels agree in stating thaj the Boers in both districts have decided to surrender before the loth. Leyds, Wessels, Fischer and Wolmaran |on Tuesday appealed to the Hague fer arbitration on the disputes leadiog totrJ» war, adding that Great Britain had violated the rules of warfare. Two Frenchmen have been arrested at Lorenzo Marques on a o'large of dealing ju the contraband of war recently funnel on the frontier. At Colonel Blood's invitation, Viljoen sent a representative to question 7000 refugees in the camps at Middleburg. The euvoy was agreeably surprised at> the comforts provided. No complaints were made. Kruger's yaungsst son aad a wellknown Boer, Captain wer« among the surrenders at Belfast At Zeerusfc it is reported that Botha's inactivity is owing to his efforts to ob. * tain cover. Systematic importation is taking place through unguarded passes in the Limpopo mountains. Thousands of riflea and many recruits thus come in Women who were permitted to leave camps for the purpose of persuading their husbands to surrender, found them reading pro-Boer speeches recently de. livered at Queen's Hall, London: The men were not conciliatory, being convinced that Great Britain is on the verge of civil war.