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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 219, 21 June 1902, Page 4

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London, Juug 17,

The Pretoria plot was discovered through au officer understanding Dutch overhearing a plotter while ■accosting Beyers in the street.

I De Wet stated that the comjmaodos never slept in the same ispot on consecutive nights. The movements of the British column Were known to all commandos :within a radius of 70 miles the same day. He admitted that he himself used the sjambok, as the i moral effect of it exceeded other punishments. j June 18. 1 The final surrender in Orange !Colony took place at Quaggafon|tein. where Brand’s commando of 218, and Niewhondth’s of 452, gave m their submission. All the men were poorly clad. De Wet urged them to be loyal to Britain till death. General Elliott made a speech which was received with : hearty cheers for the King.

One thousand one hundred and

twenty Boers have surrendered in Cape Colony. Lord Kitchener reports that the surrender in the Transvaal is com- : plete. In the Transvaal 11,225 ; men with 10,832 rifles have sub- ' mitted, and in the Orange Colony, ; 53‘.15 men, with -1280 rifles. Twelve • hundred troops have landed at Durban from Australia, j Lord Kitchener has telegraphed !to Botha, De la Key and De Wet, joxpressing high appreciation of ! their unflagging energy. He said it was due to their exertions that the burghers had displayed their loyal A in accepting the change. The King was greatly pleased and ithe British people were deeply !impressed, and anxious to welcome I the Boers as fellow citizens. In addition to the honours list published in November, Lord Kitchener, in a despatch dated April Bth, recommended Private T. W. Porter, of the New Zealand

j Mount eels. Lord Kitchener, in his telegram |to General Botha, added that he iwas confident that a new era of j complete reconciliation between all iraces had now dawned upon South | Africa. The Boers’ original strength is estimated as follows :—ln concentration and prison camps, 42,000 ; dead, wounded, and sick, 11,000 ; Kitchener’s captures, 9000; surrenderers, 18,000. The plotter who was overheaid conversing with Beyers is named Sim. The plotters had as a rendezvous an empty house, and had constructed a tunnel for dynamite, and the wires were already connected to within ten yards of the outer walls of Loid Kitchener’s residence. The whole of the steerage accommodation of several of the Uoion Gastle liners has been secured to expatriate a number of troops before August. Berlin, June 18. A syndicate of German bankers propose to establish a Bank in South Africa with a capital of a hundred million marks. Melbourne, June 19. One hundred and twenty-three deaths of Victorians occurred in South Africa during the war.

Sydney, June 19. The transport Manila, with the Seventh Contingent on board, has loft for Wellington.

Wi;u.ix(;ton. June 19. In reply to enquiries, Majc* Pilcher, of Capetown, cables that Private Warner, of Wellington, is now convalescent, and has left for New Zealand. Lieutenant Collins and Private Sands (Feilding) are doing well at Harrismith. Private

(Otto List, of Hastings, is with his (regiment, and is well. Lieutenant R. McKeitch, of Lawrence, whose (death has already been reported, was killed twelve miles from Vereenigiug.