The Transvaal.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 118, 22 October 1901, Page 1

The Transvaal.

London, October Vt. Brigadier-General Sir Henry Rawlift* Bon engaged OommaD'dant Beyers t)t Monday, near Ihrankfort, causing twenty casualties and c*ptating the Boef transportColonel Remington on Monday cap* tured a c nv y at Villersdorp, killing three Boers. Commandants Therow and MariU hav* suddenly moved southwards towardf Piquetburg, it is believed with the objercfc of meeting arms which have been landed on the coast. Th- ir advance baa been checked. ,

Five hundred Boers under several commandants are advancing south vift Greatberg Valley, looting end recruiting,' Some have teat hed Saldana Bay ; otherf are at Hop* field South, a township soma miles iuland f.om the Bay. The British are pressing them bard. The sentences of hanging passed upon Field Cornet J. rt. Kiugcr for rebellion and Lieutenant Breda for train wrecking at Bethulie and murdering a native, havf been confirmed. The sentences of threq others belonging to Lotters' commando have been commuted to imprisonment for life.

De La Rey and Kemp ara iiow norths wards of Magliesberg Hill.

Theron, Adjutant to Commandant Roos, Lieutenant Gbirvolzen. Fieldl Cornet VanderuiTve and eighty men ha w e been captured at Orange Colony. The Frontier Light Horse captured eightotn Boers at Kotberg, in Cap* Colony. Commandant Foucho is withdrawing northwards afer dogging and looting twiners and shooting natives. Lovdok, October 18. Breda and Field Cornet Kruger havs been executed at Cradock. It is believed in Natal that Botha witft a few fo'lowerd has broken through th« Bri'ish cordon at Piet" Retief and escaped north* The troops aro gradually surrounding Pongola Bosch, but small groupf of Boerß are able to e'ude the closest pursuit. - Fighting occurred in the Twenty Fout Streams ana Ptquetberg districts OIJ the Five British were including a captain of the 16th Lancers.

A later m°Bi»ago statfls that raiders attacked the district troops at Piquet berg, and that Lieutenant-Colonel Wyndham sent two squadrons of Lancers to assist* They compelled the Boers to retire with, five casualties. October 19. Marita and Theron burned manjployahut farms in retaliation for executions, and threaten more cruel reprisals* There weie 109,418 whites in th* concentration camps in September, including 54,3*26 children ; 2411 had died during the month, inoluding 1964 children. Pxris, Octoher If. - E'.off, Kruger's grandson, and party, were hisied at a Paris theatre for wear* ing evening dress while their countrymeil are fighting. Ihey hurriedly withdrexf \ j from the theatre.

A 80X1TR CANTERBURY MAN.

The special correspondent of th* Wellington Evening Post, writing from Carolina, tells the following story, which shows how a South Canterbuiy officer of „ the Sixth Coatingent earned a recommendation for the Dhtinguiahei.Service Order:—"The adjutant (Lieutenant Moatyn Innes Jones) and three men had rather an exciting adventure. They had' attempted to work round the flank of the party, only, to encounter a heavy firt from the enemy. One of the Netf Zealartders (Trooper Baker) was shot in the chest. Lieutenant Jones placed him behind a rock, and emptied the wounded man's banbolier by keeping up a rapid fire on tha Boers. Having exhausted hi« ammunition he sent back the othe* trooper to get assistance, whilst he and his charge remained 'doggo.* Some excitement w»s caused in camp in the evening by the news that the adjutant was lying on a kopje with a wounded companion. Capt-»in Markham, with twenty men, accompanied by Surgeon* Skerman> went out by night* and af er a s;ood deal of difficulty succeeded in bringing in Mr Jones It is worthy of record that our adjutant covered tha wounded man with his own clothes, and remained with him. through fine nigh* until relief arrived. Anyone who ha*experienced the rigour of a South African., winter night 6m'appreciate the heroin nature of such self-denial.'