The Transvaal.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 107, 26 September 1901, Page 4

The Transvaal.

IwNroN, September 22. Twenty per bent of the Yeomanry reenlisted for service in South Africa. At the fight at Zoutlieff, south o:E Vrybnrgj on September J Oth, fivA British were killed and twelve wounded. The Government consider that it is not necessary to specially strengthen the forces in South Africa. There is an impression that greater Alertness and caution on the spot are required. Botha and De Wet are co-operating itt the intended invasion of Natal. Botha has disinterred some buried guns» September 23. General Benson captured Carolina’s commando, forty-five miles south-east of Carolina, and fiffcy-foar prisoners, including P; J. Botha* Genefal Tucker reports that the approximate casualties at Vlakfontein on the 12th instant show that of tho company of mounted infantry seven were wounded and three <’ffiuors artd fifty men are missing. The Royal Horse Artillery had two men killed, six wounded, at d ten are missing. Tue Bedford mounted men had four killed, four wounded, and two officers and twenty-four men are missing. Of the missing, Jour officers and ninety-five men were relea el in Basutoland. The wounded were brought to the waterworks; Grafreinet farmers are irritated by De Wet and Steyn’s reception of Pastor Murray, and have become loyalists. The prisoners taken by the Boors during Major Gough’s engagement between Yryheid and Utrecht have been released, and arrived with the wounded at Yryheid. The Daily News’ Hague Correspondent states that De Wet and Both* are ionfident that the Dutch in Natal and 3ape Colony WillJ rise At the proper nomont. September 24. On the occashn Of rushing the 17th Lancers at Eland’s River Poort, the [jancers were defending two passes td jrder to prevent an incursion of the jnemy towards Oi&dock. A mist lavoured the Boers, who, dressed id ihaki, were mistaken for friends coming, [JoloUel Qorringe expecting them. Major Sickalls, who was encamped three miles off, noticing the attack, hurried to Major Bandeman's support; Meanwhile the Boers suffered heavily, and only made headway by attacking the bill from the rear, their bullets killing and wotind idg most of the d fenders of tho ca r p. The Lancers used every ca’tridge they ’had) but nobody surrendered. The BoerS rushed tie camp, levelling and firing at anybody they saw. They retired on Major Nickalls’ approach, removing then? dead add wounded; The railway has been damaged at Paardekop, trucks derailed, and six mtd and thirty horses kille 1 at Groin. The Hague, September 23; The Dutch Speech from tho Th one is silent on the subject of South Africa; The Boors in Holland are equally disappointed that thd Cflar and President Loub tdid not discuss the question at their meeting.