The Transvaal.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 137, 5 December 1901, Page 1

The Transvaal.

- • ■■-.... ..< ;o-. ■-- I^VDfes’jvOeeembOT^l. ; . prevail* pft th% that the-vysr ha* «nt*r|d’upon Vk ■ final phase, The' 'Bows have little antatouiuoa, -afecl ate greitt hardships, riKtenwOu 6'f the blockhouseti hsadtfay -ftreias. IKem p’s burying- grain; . . ■••-■ ;••. ■■ '. l " • , MrJesse'Cplling*, ■»'Unionist mcmbbl: .tff'.tha Übut<o -of ‘ <3on>mon«, ‘visited the ftoor ; prison -'camp an Alh'uela-bad. Tlfts prisoners in Indiacre a:«ioos to testify to the'admirable arrsniTements made aofi ihs -kiiHl'ios* of tbie official*, * ■ December % ■ 'Gomm-iMos 1509 in n occupy positions ift ‘.Vest 'Capo. Colony, somt -distance frhm the, railways’, Rad wherb ■water is scarce.* ’.Ganiwti! French, v.-'tb. eight columns, ie operating south ward’.-,&ad s&ftw.&rda of the invaders,; and 'toya‘i«t -troops' oooupjr the various village.*. Boers ate constantly escaping from thb concentration: camps and .joining commandos, , -rogarUct-a '<sf tbs 'bath -of neutrality. JWrs afthe '‘Capa 'are raiding Dutch and British alike, and .alienating many ■aympathffiera, * , Commandant Brand bate again invaded Cape Colony, ;And ; 'joined /15G Boon, northwards ofThilipstown. Major BcreSford, -ekirnais’hitig wards of Bultfontein,‘captured eleven Btfere 'knd many horses. ■

MinorjcajHures have been made «If* v Whore.

The’e Is a coUslderabl* 'increase in the UUmheE -uf Boers swearing allegiance, chiefly intheTransVaal. • Cinon Koox Ojttle, vicar of Hoar Cross and Oaoon of Worcester, during the 'ebursi of a’ sermon: advocated dri vi og bnk traitors at Home and abroad, whose language prolonged bloodshed.

December 3.

Xord Krtcheher’s Weekly report sUtth that thirty‘tyro .Boers had Jbeak killed, eighteen mounded, *26& .taken prisoner*, knd fourteen had surrendered ; also tha*t 143 rifles; 1600 horses, and 4990 ohttli liad been captured. 'Canerala Bruco fiamiltbti, Spence, hud ’tfemcr dre hustling the ‘•ienemy in th» Eimelo district..

'fjtenehd French reports'that|ft MyhTri% Fouche TJufferod ’hebvily, -and 'that hi* commando ac&ttefed; 'that Theron, witi « small foHowihg, 'had escaped math of the • Clan william that Oelonei Elliott had captured twelve Boers in Northern Orange. Colony, and QolonA Muqio thirteen at Holyrood.