The Transvaal.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 152, 14 January 1902, Page 1

The Transvaal.

London, January 9. The extension of the blockhouse system is giving General Bruce Hamilton & firmer grip of the Eastern Transvaal. Louis Botha is concentrating in \M vicinity of Mongoma. Orob-'llaar at Inhlazatye, and Dannha/wiaor at B=iba-'go, nave combined their •forcag, whijli are estimated at 125 fr. They Invo three guns. I):' Hitt9 Saner, bro'her of ah ex Min« jstdv of Capa Colony, declares that hd saw an apnlieation form of admission to citizenship in the Uni'.ed South African Republic. One hundred and eighty thousand were -printed in Poland and forwarded to the Boer leaders prior t 6 the war. ■' ~-

k. corcenti'atfon camp to hold 200() prisoners is being constructed at Por" Elizabeth. The Government is purchasing vast racls of land in the south-east of the Orange Olony, "January 10.

The Government have appealed foe 9IJ9G infantry volunteers, to replug tho volunteers serving in South Afnca. The burghi rs • show an increasing inclination to "surrendor. It is rumoured ut Standerton that there will bs a general surrender of Boera on the loth hist.

Lord Mili-er, speaking at a banquet at Johannesburg, said that the situation was steadily improving. ' A hopeful feeling abounds; bursting storm clouds had cleared the air, and only inconceivable folly or mismanagement.would lead to a repetition of disastpr. Though some were still striving to pre erve the old political quallism in substance, if nob in form, and despite the pro-Boers, Britain was firmly determined not to be cheated of the results of the war.

Dr G. B. Clark, an ex-member of lhi House of Commons for Caithness, after consulting tha Boers on the starts for America to urge President Roosevelt to intervene.

Mr Basper Jacobus, lately representative for Jansenvillo in the Cape Assembly hi«.s been committed for trial on a chargd of treason.

The second gun captured from Colonel Benson at the Brakenslaagte reverse, was found hidden in a spruit at) Beihel.

The Daily Telegraph corresponded states in reference to the plot which was discovered in Johannesburg in Decembe r last, that it was liatched by 300 foreigner.*, who, with the assistance of a commandant, kept 1000 men ambushed outside the town, proposed to treaoherously murder the members of the Hand Rifles and Police, capture or kill Lord Kitchener and L6rd Milner, burn nesburg, and flee to the mountains, hoping to compel Britain to sue for peace-. Sixty arres's v?ere made. Loid George Hamilton, speaking afc Ealing, said that the news received by the Government was satisfactory, thai the" war was rapidly closing. Lord Milner, at a banquofc at Johannesburg, eulogised the cordmonsenee" patro'itism of Canada and Au e tralia) where there were no pro Boors causing dissention. He emphasised the claims of the loyalists in South Africa, and said it was useless to threaten and wheedle the" enemy or fidget about negotiations* They ought to keep their clemency for surrenderee.

, A crowded meeting of the Peace" Society and pro Boers was held at Derby. The promoters having retired, a vote of confidence in the Government wad carried.

The pro Boera at a theatre afc Salisburg, Austria, howled down an adaptation of* Wilson Barrett's •« Sign of thd Cross." Major McMieking captured twelve" Boers who were hidiDg on an island it! the Vaal River. Captain Tremayne ciptured Field Cornet Breylonbich single handed. Golonol Benson's 1 second gun has been recovered by Colonel Allonby e eomplete. - General Delisle on Wednesday engaged t)e Wet's concentrated forca 120 miles south of Heilcron, shelling them heavily. General Elliott drove De Web the main railway line. Fifty Boera at night attempted td cross the Heilbron Frankfort; blocft house line, and attacked three blocfis houses. They were repulsed. Vanniekerk, with: three hundred} crossed the railway at Roodeval at night* and joined De Wet c

Brisbane, January 10.

A cable has bean received from Lorcl Milnar Btating that 10,000 young breed' ing cattle are required for South Africa during the ensuing year, and asking tho price. A reply was aent stating that £3 to £4 per head would be thd cost.