The Transvaal.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 172, 1 March 1902, Page 3

The Transvaal.

Losuun, February 2ff. Lb'rd' Kitchener's weekly report slater that twenty Boers were killed and twelve woundi <l. Thn e hundred and seveutynina prisoners we'se taken, and there werdTO* smtenderers. •Maj or Mijckci'ixio captured Cornet Stepauus Grobelaar. The columns between Styrdpoort and Botha’s Pass are pushing towards Hand* slllli.il. Ci ionel E'lioit holds the lino of the Wdge river. Colonel Barker is support"■o ' i„i iiiina.idant Malan, with 200 Beers in urn .Kiaserbu’-g district, lias been tlrsv n i a-i v/jvd h-.'-io;*i 1i.9 railway. Ai -j.ii' r'ni'i ■, with 2hi) men, pursued p.iwy so.o.ii wesi. uf Carnarvon* Tim latest sweep is in the -HarriM'.i.ih diiiWiot, L is seventy-live miles Vv ids. Bergl’s tender for the suprly of meat is da «d J t-iiiavy 01 h. w.dle ids written u.i.h.u uinp, lu u-e oolm.ial meat as fat its posstb.o is vuue-i J .aaary 27 th. February 20. M-ijar id'Uik'ar/.ie surprised Hans Ciolieiaar’s king* r, H ns tts’d, but die pit «iius (jrobeiaar and Sehalk Me er, an iniiuuini.il Boer, ’were captured. To tlm erid of N.member, Capa Colony Jus fUi'ni.-ued ‘ li,jloo i admits for the B-iers. Colonel Yilbmol, with 1500 {rational ‘ssfx>ut« ae'u ited by a patriotic desire to ends ho s.ti uggh), and with the express dt-Lei lain'lion to capture Do Wet‘find. . gieyo and 00U "Bjors, driving hard, ■rushed tliO Wpo-iti at Bottra-.berg on Saturday night. A tm.nbef of Boms, (Soaped, abandoning everything, but fifteen were killed and six wounded. The New Zealanders displayed the greatest gallantry on the occasion. Lieutenant Colonel Sir Le-he Bundle, on returning to England from South Africa, said that in order to assure against, being supplied with unsuitable remounts, the War Office' ought to contract . with Australian breeders for F reasonable period instead Of greatly neglecting an inexhaustible source of supply. They were declining strong Australian hc-rees at twelve guineas when paying thirty-iive ‘in Hungary and the, Argentina. / .February’27, Ben Tiljoeh has been sent to St.; Helena. Boers'frbffi an'other district suddenly' appearing south-west of Clerksdorp, cap-, tured Colonel Vondoribp’s ewpty VVmmarahstad cOnvoy, which was being, escorted by the fifth battalion of Yeomanry, three companies of the Northumberland Fusiliers, with two ‘guns. . Toe. ’’fighting was severe. The enemy retired find Vere gurkue’d. 5 t %ELLlXGTON.“Fubr’u‘ary'To. T ThePretoier has infoffiied tor IWiforll,; that the sixth Contingent; ’ willvreturnltoifche ftth. i ' ’ «Ij