The Transvaal.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 112, 8 October 1901, Page 1

The Transvaal.

London, October §. Half a battalion of moiinfed- infanfi« is startlhg forSbu£h shortly; jgi| otherejMre iaiiainiog'.' - ? ~ J -■ -- of the Mold will fight &oW as Colo n and l£Al9t wioh’s oolams were retaruuig separately after drlvin j ’ the 'Boers Kemp, who was actio# under; Rey, crept., back end attaokr d■' Eekcwicbi' firing iutd tWcainp at dh tbe-SOth-* •golonol Kekewidj the Boer -position, the enemy precipitately. Tlia» ■ British . lost W al )£, horses, and wore tillable to pursue -ths Boers. The pounded were taken Ruatenbiirg. Ootobrl'_'4. Colonel Eekewicb w>a {severely wounded in the right shoulder and fef| side. Bix‘een officers and forty-eight men of the Scottish'Horse were wound«| at Mold will. Scouts report that th| Boers lost heavily, though they remoyeif most of their wounded.

Six hundred constabulary recruits .will, bo sent to Smith Africa in October, and* similar number in November. The second _ battalion of the Leinster Regiment, at present in Jamaica, has beet ordered to South: Africa. Three companies"cora posed of drafts from the Dublin Fusiliers, Lancashire Fusiliers, Middlesex' Regiment, Ddr*d|j Regiment, and South Lancashire Begi> ment, with two 15-pr guns and a Maxing garrisoned Fort Italia. . Anticipating an attack, an eight men, under Lieutenants. Kane an| i Lefroy, was placed on top of Jtal mouU; tain. . ’

• At midnight "700 Boers attacked tbig ■outpost, which was captured after § heroic defence lasting an hour, and fight* ing -at close quarters* The D oer deai| syere piled up around Lieutenant E*ne, who died st the head of his men, shouting “No Surrender,*” Lieutenant Lejfrqif, was badly wounded. The fort was then Bur rounded determined fighting kept .up till o’clock in the evening,‘when retired* The 7 garrison, 'being 'short 'e| ammunition and 'water, retired $5 Nkandha. The Boor clsuaJties weis altogether out of proportion tp tfi| British.

-A simultaneous attack .made- on Prospect, which was garrisoned by sixtyj five men-wifh a leaving sixtydead. .- : Twenty-six of' Colonel officers were killed or wounded in t.hj fighting at Moldwill. v . Gam man dan tT Brand' Tffw ■ woundeid during the engagement at Calf? don River. ' . iOutdbaf’B* Lieutenant Bell, a Western Australian, and Farrier Major Hafdham, a Npiy Zealander, are mentioned for conspicq; ons self sacrificing acts of 'b ra 7 er y Brakpan and Naiiuwpoorb and-each has been awarded the Cross.

Four thousand Boers 'attacked Fortj Italia and Prospect. The British, the fighting, buried"s32 Boers. The enemy at Fort Italia - fought wjfi* dogged desperation, repeatedly charging the trenches. The enemy’s fire, eafjys£ the fight, damaged the two 15 pt. and the M ocim. Of tne outpost which made such ahrgyg resistance at Italia mountain, fourto«j| escaped and thirty-seven were - capturedj The latter were released carrying the Boer wounded to ango. Three hundred and fifty of the enemy looted a few head of cattle at Pietpotgie f tersrust and 200 attacked -the roisßi£| station at Bothabella, near Middlebatg, with a view of obtaining proviaoa% They were repulsed.