The Transvaal.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 113, 10 October 1901, Page 1

The Transvaal.

;u. London, Obtobor 6. Tho Spectator suggests that Ball Roberts should be sent .to finish the watl Lord E tcheaer being appointed tempo rary Commander-ia-Ohief or Earl Roberta* chief-of-staff, . Dr Wolmarftna declares that Mr Kruger is slowly grow'fig weaker, a'flA that liia moaUl condition is qnSatisfad‘ tory. Kruitainge ’u forte mad?, three attempts tojeroas the Orange river 4 butwere repulsed owing to the efficiency of the blockbOuab system. The British casualties for September were seventy three officers and 1012 meik killed, wounded, or mbsing, 198& invalided home, and 143 died of disease. The total B itiali casualties during war number 70,552, of whom 824 werU officers. Of 16,613 man who died \A South Africa-. 10,550 succumbed Out of 67,470 invalided home, the great majority have recovered and rejoined their regiments.

October 7. Field Cornet Van Voureu and ted Jammereburg drift prisoners declare thall they Were in ignorance of Lord Kitchener’s proclamation. Major Kavanagh oh Friday attache! Slheepers at Adanskraal, capturing eight mem Sdicepers-, despite that hd was goffering from enteric fever* quitted the camp and escaped on horae» back,

Fifteen of Party's Veoriuhry only their bandoliers, swam off to ana stormed the islands in the Vaal River, capturing twenty five Boers. Botha is within Lyttelton’s cordon aii the south east corner of the Transvaal* and one commando is westward of thd Normandien Pass. South African reinforcements for October include mounted infantry* cavalry and engineers, The Standard mentions & theory thal Botha’s and Kemp’S attacks Whta intended to draw the British-northwards in order to facilitate a rising in Capd Colony, and urgsa the Spending of additional millions in sending adequate reinforcements to Lord Kitchener.

The Daily Elxpress states that iti was reported to the Wat Office authoritiei in May that the troops at the seat of Waif were weary, and mutt forthwith bd replaced. The (Var Office h&a air&nged for nlnl vessels to carry reinforcements. Commandant Viljoen assured Cblohel Biidott Blood during a rßdont interview? that mdny Boers will emigrate to Cdnadtt and Australia at the end of the War. ll they temained in South Africa thdjt would only be loyal under resoliitd rule. WEii.iNdxoN, October 8. The Premier received a telegram tfli day from the Casualty Department Capetown as follows :—“ Casualties reported of the Seventh New Zealand Mounted Infantry at Geiuknekj Octobeif 4th: Killed—436s Sergeant G. Ai Dtmgan, 4443 Trooper William Smitijj At Pondwaha sth October: 4617 Trooper Willidm Campbell, in thd hip ; 4435 Trooper William Rutherford} in the leg. Dangerously ill at Pretoria of enteric fever: 3745 Trooper W, A: Hewson, Sixth New Zealand Contln-

gent ” ; ~ , In Conned 1 ion with the supply of Christmas comforts for the New Zealand! soldiers in South Africa, the gOnetal committee of the Post ■land TelegraphiS Patriotic I'und ban; after reference t 8 the principal sub-committees throughout the colony, voted £IOO to the Mayot’d fund on the understanding that thd comforts are to be forwarded for thd benefit of the N?w Zealand contingents; and not for the Wellington nien only*