The Transvaal.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 158, 28 January 1902, Page 1

The Transvaal.

London, January 23. Colonel Colenbrander captured seven of Steenkarap’s men at Magaliesherg, and unearthed 26 barrels of gunpowder and 206 rounds of shrapnel. Three hundred Boor prisoners at Bermuda have offered allegiance. The others are willing to swear neutrality.

' One hundred nbd fifty Coefii surprised 25 Yeomanry who werO acting as escort to do natives at Lidique Spruit, the latter being engaged in cutting ■grasiF. TO Yeomanry made a gallant resistance, but were overpowered. One man was killed and seven men wore wounded. Four unarmed natives were shot in cold btood. Six Boers were killed and four wounded.

Mr Kruger, in a note to the Dutch pr?ss, in rep ! y to MrChamborlain, soys that the Boer leaders ohaim '•Complete independence, and that negotiations are hopeless withr* out it.

January 21.

The backhouses at Klutesdorp, Reuteradorp and Beeriist have beeii completed, and men are continuing the work on to Mafeking. The Dragoon Guards were skirmishing at liarrismith when a Boer boy, aged six, approached suddenly drew a revolver, and wounded ft private mortally. Van Scbelvfjk and hie two sons were each sentenced to a year’s imprisonment and a fine of £SOO for concealing horses, ammunition and grain at Nerval's Pont, Colonels Fonsbawe and Barker captured fifteen Boers. The Daily Chronicle’s Rome correspondent asserts that Colonel Kicoiavdt, formerly of the Boer foreign legion, is returning to the Transvaal with volunteers for the Boer service.

The War Office authorities have declined to assist Lord HobhousC in taking legal action in regard td his niece’s removal from South Africa.

January 25

One hundred and fifty Boers cap* fared a patrol of twelve Yeomanry in the Western Transvaal, after six Yeomanry had been wonnded and four Boers killed.

General Methuen 'captured at Bosohpoort ftrG waggons, 19,011 cattle, 28,750 sheep, and 36 Boefc families.

Lord Kitchener hag authorised General Tilomel to raise a burgher corps of 1500. General Vilomel ■informed Mr Steyn that this is aA outcome of his obstinacy. Washington, Janurry 24.

After delivering a violent speech in the Senate, in which he accused Great Britain of assassinating Schcepers, Senator Henry Yeller* of Colorado, withdrew his motioA calling upon the American Government to intervene in South Africa-*

Sydney, January 24.

The First Contingent is practically completed, and the enrolment of the Second Contingent has beeA started in the various States.

•January 26,

Mr See fully endorses the protest of the Premier of New Zealand against contracts for army supplied being given to the Argentine, and has cabled to the Agent-Gen-eral for New South Wales, stating that preference ought to be given to the British colonies,

Brussels, Janiiary 25,

The journal Debruxelles, thd organ of the Belgian Government) says the ungrudging sacrifices madd by the British colonies is a striking object-lesson of national solidarity*