The Transvaal.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 128, 14 November 1901, Page 4

The Transvaal.

, .. London, November 10. Pr Lotter, brother of the commandant who wis recent'y captured, was sentenced to be hanged. The sentence has been commuted to seven years' impritonrnent. A thousand recruits, including 300 South African Constabulary, have) embarked at Southampton for the Cape. Great Britain's purchase of 70,000 horses in Hungaty for army remount* has exhausted the supply. November 11. Excepting the commandos of My burg, Fouche and Weasels, the whole of Cape Colony south and east of the Tiansraal line is almost clear of Boers. Fourteen more Boer leaders have been banished, including Klopper, ex-chairman of the Volksraad. At an early date the campaign will bo prosecuted on a mora atfgre-sive bc»lb, md several regimen's from iudia will relieve others at the front. Seven thousand tim* expired men in [ndift have accepted a bounty to serve in South Africa. A rrserve squadron of cavalry is being prepared. Sttotig drafts will be,sent i.O •einforoe the troops at the front: O.ie Ohe-hir-i and two Worcestershire

battalions of militia also go. November 12. The Daily Mail states that Mr Kruger is willing to cede the Rand to Great Britain and conclude if the rebels are amnestied, prisoners immedute'y returned to their home*, the troops withdrawn, farms rebuilt, and a treaty guaran'eei by France and fcusma concluded, granting immediate and complete autonomy under the Africander flag. The amen led lists of the Brakenslaagte fitfht Bhow that eighty six British were killed and 216 wounded. The Daily Mail states that Lord Kitchener has ordered al khaki-clad pris ners to be shot. Meß-r9 Layds and Fischer, the Boer peace delejite?, have gme to Berlin. Th-re is much speculation with regard to their nm»ion.