The Transvaal.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 123, 2 November 1901, Page 4

The Transvaal.

LoHDoir,;o«ober29. 'Colonel B/*W i *^^^bi^Bito'«scap«l a few hundred yards in advanca-dl thV attaokera,abandotunghi«kaVrtFolVM4nd papers. I saol'ibe? | remainder' of r with those who* recently. an » attack on Natal; have ioattered araonaat fthVhiUs; " ■ •.. f The prisoners 'captnred bv Colonel Da#kinßlnclhaedfiani s Bothil brother ' of Ziouiß Botha. ObtobtrSO. Lord Methuen ■ reported >thafc -Da ' La Bay and i Kemp, ioreepingi. through thick bush, nop's dolumri on the 24th' oV'"the Great Bfarico river, exhibtihg .gnat de. termination. They were repulsed after-severe fitting, leaving forty dead, including Commandant Guistcrhuysen. Tl eß' ei* cammed eight Waggons. Two British officers and men ; were ' killed, and five officers add fifty men wounded, All the defender* showed gr«at. gallantry.

Thirty-seven casualties occurred among the 4„h B*tttry of Field Artillery and escurt of twenty Northumberland Pusiliers in a tkirraish which'oconrred a* Smithfield. Four British officers'lind three men were wounded in Colonel Henry's attack on Koffyfonteiu. Lord Kitchener's weekly report states that seventy-four Boers we*e killed, six. teen wounded; 352«taketf prisoners, J and | forty-five had surrendered; and that 471 rifles, 76,000 rounds of ammuniUou 216 had be»-n captured.

Lord Milneryspeaking a* Durban, said that the war is burning itseH out;'and had nothing left to feed upon. General French reports that" only two commandoes are left in the Cape and Midlands—Vaddervoutor commanding the Victoria West diatfiot, and Broulvei'a Pyper'sand Smuts' combined forces in the Oudtshoorm district.

On the 25th October, Colonel Byng surprised Stanneburg's commando, rind captured twenty two Boers, including Field Cornets Stanneberg arid. Oaishuizen. • -' ObtoberSX. Acceding ta'Mr E. G. JeluYo*'» petition, the E*ng releases on-January 11th Trooper Tasker, a New Zealander, who was sentenced to three years in July last for sleeping at his p.st. Colonel ForteßCue encountered Miller 1 * commando on the 27th north of Balmoral There was a running furht all day, in ! which lour Boers were* killed, and fifty» four taken prisoners.