The Transvaal.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 106, 24 September 1901, Page 4

The Transvaal.

London, "September I§. The Natal Mounted Rifles and the iField Artillery have been called out. The Boers recent attack on Belfast -wife made with the intention to capture sup. plies. A similar raid ia expected in Natal. Forty Hussars and Imperial Bushmen pursuing twenty Boers were suddenly surrounded by 300 other Boers out'ide Klerksdorp, A sharp fight at olosß quarters ensued. Two Britishers wera wounded, and six Boers killed and a . dozen wounded. Thero are 2000 Bner prisoners at Durban, who are about to be shipped. Some of them 'will be sent tb India.

Scheeper's commando has entered Barrydale. Colonel (Jrabbe is closely pursuing him. A serious British reverse has been sustained at Utfackb, Elands River. September 20. Lord ILitchener reports that on Tuesday evening, three companies of Mounteft Infantry with three guns, under Majo' r Gough, were reconnoitring south of 'UfcrechVin conjunction with the JohaQnesberg Mounted Rifles, under Colone} Stewart. They sighted 300 Boers retiring from Scheeper's Nek towards BIooS River iPoort

Major Gough started for a ridge overlooking 'the Poort; asking Colonel Stewart, who was marching one hour behind him, to co-operate. The Boer movement was evidently a trap, for when Major (rough was within reach of his objective, the Boers suddenly and in considerable strength, und*r cover of the Poort, attacked his front and right flank, After severe fightiog the British wera overpowered, losing their guns, though the sights and breech-blocks were first destroyed. Two officers and fourteen men were killel, and four officers and twenty men wounded, Major Gough and another officer, who escaped during the night by Dejager's Drift, report that the B0?rs numbered over 1000, u:ider Louis Botha. Colonel Stewart was unable to cooperate with Major Gough, and fell back on Dt-jager's Drift. His patrols were not in touch with the enemy. Reinforcements r have been sent by General Lyttelton. In connection with the disaster al Taikastod, General French reports that i Commandant South gave an order to break through the cordon hemming him ■ in, and rushed a squadron of the 17. h Lancers at Eland 3 River Poort, west of Tarkaßtod, killing three officers, twenty 'men, and wounding Major Victor Sand--1 man and thirty men. The squadron fought most gallantly, i inflicting heavy loss on the Boers, who were clad in khaki and were at first mistaken for British. British olurnns are closely purauing the cordon-breakers, I Commandant youth recently succeeded 5 Kruilinger, who is in disfavour with De \ Wet. ( In the afftir at Utrecht, besides the "killed and wounded, five officers, including Major and G , were amongst the captured. The numbefr t captured is not stated. ; Seventeen Lancers were killed at Tarkj astod, including Lieutenant Philip Leslife Russell, of Garngham, Victoria. An official despatch states that a superior force at Vlakfontein-, fifteen miles south of the waterworks, eur l rounded and captured two guns of the A Battety, and a company of mounted mea who were escorting them. September 21. The only detti's tlut Lord Kitohcnef has received of the Vlakfontein revere* are that a lieutenant had been killed, and that a column is pursuing the enemy. A strict investigation into the.affair haa been ordered. General Piumer'a New Zealanders •captured twenty of Kruitzingsr's corn* j manuo at R.mxville. I, A proclamation has been issue'l ea« e fo cing the Fugitive Offenders' Aob in the Transvaal. Sii'Henry Campbell Banne; man, speaking at th« north-east Lanarkshire byo election, declared that the annexation ot the Boer Republics mud be upheld.