The Transvaal.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 122, 31 October 1901, Page 1

The Transvaal.

LiMinox, October 27. A column scouting nor oh and south ot Rustenburg collected 250 Boers in a fortnight. Scheepen has been removed to Beau* fort West. He is convalescent. Pro-Boers have raised a cry thab financiers support Earl Roberta for saving the Rand, and hnte Sir Redvers Bullet for abandoning the mine* to their fate. October 28. Botha has rcjobed Sohalkbucger at Anibterdim. Several of Smut's khaki-elad oomrnndoa are making slow progress in OapfrGolany. The campaign is attributable to 2500 rebels who are constantly scattering and leunitiig over mi arc* exteiding from Herschol to Ookief and Montague to Trati* kei. Colonel l»awkin* enphred three laagerfl and fifty prisoners at Nylptroom, deluding three field comets and Schutie, late LanddrOßt of Pretoria The Government are re-ealisting the Imperial Yeomanry, and many exmom'oers oi colonial corps are joining it, Reuter's Agency reports that at tho instance of Great Britain the Government of the Netherlands hua giveo the Dutch C n ul-Gonerai at Preti.rsa indefinite Lave of absence for assisting "BroekHma, The Bishop of Hereford, Canon Gore, and other* f have appealed to the Govern* ment to remove all Boer coma suction camps to healthy seaside places. Many of Sir Redvers Bullers' prominent personal fi lends deprecate the agitation on hi* behalf. Mr Chamberlain's Edinburgh speech evoked a storm ot indignant protests in the German press: ... Recently, while the transports SusWt and Kent were lying in Holdje Bay, oa the West coast of Cape Coluny, Boert tried to secure command of the narrow entrance to the harbour Tha captains signalled to the gunboat Partridge, whioh shelled and dispersed the Boers.

A Dumber of burghers still in the field have been attaohwi in pursuance of Lord Kitchener's receot proclamation. Two rebels at Vryburg hive bectt sentenced to ten years' transportation lot serving with commandos. The Rouen dockers urge the convening of a congress ,of European dockers with a view to adopting the Dutch proposal to boycott Biitish shipping, and thtti compel the termination of the South African war. October 29. Corporal W. J Byrne was accidantally killed, atid Private Thomas Crawford severely wounded at Guldtevorjden. Both belong to the New Zta *&* Mounteds. Colonel Benson on the 22nd instant surprised a laager at Tricharsfontein, capturing thirty-Beven Boers. Ha repulsed a heavy {rearguard attack by Grobelaar's and Erasmus' cdmrnandos at Yzervarkfohtein. ColonelJHenry expelled Nleuwhandt'a commando from a strong position at Koffyfontein, and is pursuing them. :t} Major Holmes' column has captured forty-air Boers at Doornkop, and Colonel Pitcher's twenty-seven Boera at Galedon, Biver. 4* WBLtiKofos, October 29. The Government is advised thai Corporal W. J. Byrne, of the Seventh Contingent, whosi mother lives in Chriatchuroh, died at Gennederonden on October 23rd from a gunshot wound in the chest, also that on October 24th James Crawford, of the Seventh Contingent, who belongs to Waimate, Canterbury, was accidentally and severely wounded in the right forearm, and Alex. Mitchell, of the Seventh Contingent, who belongs to Pleasant) Point, Canterbury, was dangerously ill of eoterio fever at Mooi river on Ootober 2bth. The Premier has received the following cablegram from Lord Kitchener ai Pretoria t—" October 28th. The officers arid men of {the Fourth and Fifth Contingents who wish to do do are returning to New Zealand. : *