The Transvaal.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 170, 25 February 1902, Page 4

The Transvaal.

_ v.iH .London', PebruarjJ General Hamilton reports thai if marched to Nigel on February 181 b J eugnged the Boera at Klippen, but(f| to dislodge them. Part of the Guards were captured. Major and Captain Us»her were s«rv|| wounded. Two Dragoons were l|l six wounded, and forty capturrid 1 afterwards released. Boers sentenced to penal gen- t outside Africa are going to the gey oil- V A special gaol is being constructs X their accommodation. Twelve bun' V? ordinary prisoners of war will be r ( to be sent to Antigua in the midd: $ April.

February £ ‘Ji An intercepted message from / Viljoen to Schalkbu-ger urged to do something to counteract the r,- jf of surrender which is tifa in the Trausvaal. Botha and Schalkburgt*' $ trying to arrange a meeting. $ A captured burgher named Mot 1 proved to be Judge Koch, who pree^f at the trial which resulted in the ar I of the t constable who shot dewi Jaekscn Edgar at his own houii’ Johannesburg in December, 1888. ) J Colonel Evans, of the volunteer Tosite regiment, was killed dunt| $ smart engagement at Vryheid. r -£| Ihe ladies’ commission’s report - striking vindication of the nwM employed at the concentration c nyiv and pays a high tribute to Lord MiliM The report states that the mortahlC;? the esmps is largely attributable to|<f insanitary condition of the country causes within the control of the refuM that it is impossible to disband ||| camps, and would be highly impolit|fS hmid om. refugees, whom, if scattereflf would be impossible to feed. )i|l Hang Grobelaer, with 150 men, i|p| repeated but unsuccessful traverse Colonel Garrett’s lines, wl ultimately fled southwards tosi® Frankfort, on the Vrcde blockhlfi line. fifteen Boers have been capturclvS Carolina.

February 2i ; 4|| The Queenslanders attached to Cem|» Plumer s column captured twelve BoeiS Wakkerstroom on the 19th. ||| Commandant Christian Botha, coSI to General Botha, a prominent who was captured in November la Mili been sentenced to ten years’ impm-jM ment and fined £SOO, or an additisjW year in prison. Lord Kitchener reports that Coltf ; ||| Parka’ mounted force, with 300 of National Burgher Scouts. force of Boers at Nooitgedacbt, turing 164, including Cornet Dutoit c||| Lieutenant Viljoen. There were if# British casualties. ■« Sydney, February 21 'tjCs Arrived—Kent, She proceeds to Ni Zealand to embark troops. ,'f ||