The Transvaal.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 108, 28 September 1901, Page 4

The Transvaal.

Lonion, September 24. A thousand Boer prisoners have left Durban for Bombay. General French's force of 34,000 is considered insufficient to.expel marauders from Cape Colony, as 10,000 of them are utilised in guarding the railway and 10,000 in assisting the town guards in looal'defence. The .magazine' rifles entrusted to the Cape Town Gu-rds have been called io and replaced with Martinis, there, b#ng suspicion that a percentage of the Guards are disloyal and are supplying the Boers with arms and ammunition. The weekly report shows that 29 Boers had been billed, -16 wounded : , 350 ciptured, and 48 surrendeifcd, and that 245 rifles, 17.800'rounds of ammunition, 55 waggons, 1000 horses, and 5500 cattle had been taken. September 25. Colonel Thorneycroft, in the southern Orange district, reoaptured the 15pounder which had been taken on the 19th, capturing twenty Boers and 10,000 rounds of ammunition. Lord Kitchener congratulated the Government of Natal on the ready response made by Natal for volunte*re. Many recruits were obtained in the Sutherland district. Natal volunteers have been sent to Greytown. In Lovatt's corps nine were killed, one dangerously wounded, twenty-three severely, and six slightly wounded. Fifty Northumberland Fusiliers, on the night of September. 18th, left Lichtenberg to surprise a farm at Duikafontein, expecting to capture De La Rey and his staff. They rushed the farm at daybreak, capturing eleven Boers. De La Bey fled overnight. September 26. Boer advices state that Beyers and Viljoen have Joined Botha, who has a force of 50Q9f Lieutenant Grant, of tba 12th Lancers, on entering Soheeper'a laager alone on the of the 23rd, summoned tho Boers to surrender. Three complied wtyb Grant's demand. He then threw their rifles into the river and revolvered two of the enemy. In • the confusion the Boers fired at random, wounding their own men. Brussels, September 25. Advices have been received here which declare that Mr Kruger's funds are almost exhausted through paying numerous refugees in the service of the so-called Boer Government; also, lecurers who were touring on the Continent. Mr K-uger has scarcely enough for himself and the mrjsfc pressing exigencies of the Boer servioe. Some of the prominent Boers in Holland are almost destitute. The Haoub, September 25. De Kuyper, the Dutch Premier, replying to questions in the Second Chamber, said the Cabinet had disoussed whether they ought, like their prede> cessors, to include in the speech from the Throne, some mention of Sou h Africa, and it was decided not to use a mere empty phrase, but the Government bad not declared that they would never bo able hereafter to do something for the Boers.