THE TRANSVAAL WAR.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume LII, Issue 2601, 27 August 1901, Page 2

THE TRANSVAAL WAR.

Haasliroem'n commando was surprised at Dooruber>;, and S"\eu were killed and twenty one sut pined.

A number of time expired Australian troops have landed at Southampton from the Cape.

" The Times " says the Transvaal holders ot Netherlands Railway stock have sold five thousand ono hundred thartis ou the Continent since t.lie biginni g of the war. Thti present holdere cannot expocl to be bouglio oui.

" The Standard's " saye the Dutch shareholders are delighted at the reported terms of Gieut, Britain , h off sr, tun Kruger nnd his counsellors are duuppointcd, the setilem-tnt removing lha pretext for any inter«atiounl dispute.

Private Delr.hunty was killed at Ba3plaat*. and Lieutenant W. Young and Pri-

vate Macdonald were wounded. All three are Westraliana. A man named Upon, a Cape colotist and colonial born, was shoe as a spy at Pretoria. He was caught with three Boers from a commando endeavou iog to re pass British lines. The three were detained as prisoners of war. Sergeant Keddell, of ihe New Zealand Seventh Contingent, was accidencly severely woucded at Bloemfontein Kruger is seudicg a protest to the Hague Peace Convention signatories. The Netherlands Government declined to transmit it. Kruger hint a that if the Powers are indifferent to his appeal, Botha will be given a free hand in regard to reprisals. The Bishop of Liverpool, replying to a pro Boer appeal from the Swiss Kvangelica Alliance, strongly upholds Great Britain's causo. He says the cha gas made ia the appeal against the British are baßed on defective information, aud are spiritually harmful to the Evangelicalism ci the wcrld. "The Daily Express" states that Mr Kruger'e ag-nts made a secret bid for the new French cannon shown in the Military Exhibition fit Earl's Court, London. Hertzog and Malau, in widely separated places in Cape Colony, deprived English lieutenants, bearers of Lord Kitchener's proclamation, of their horses and personal property. Commandant Malaa even threatened a bearer wieh dea h. The Boers still in the field are officially estimated at eleven thousand. Lord Kitchener cent back 200 Yeomanry recruits as radically ut>£h. They were suffering from varicocele, heart disease, and deafuess. Lord Kitchener complains bitterly of the slipshod examination of recruits in England. " The Times, " with a view to speedily terminating tho campaign, urges the employment of seasoned britis'u troops from India prior to their rtturn to England, tried 8i v h Africaa c*mp&igntra repliciug them in India Owing to the difficulty of obtaining a representative gathering of members, and the danger of inflammatory speeches, it is not expected that the Cape Parliament will assemble even by October unless the situation changes. The Governor of the colony will mean ime issue warrants for expenditure. Kruger, replying to a German pro-Boer society's address, says Lord Kitchener's pro clamation showed he recognised the impossibility of subduing the Boers by arms. Colonel Foitherstonhaugh, near Klerkaclorp, ciplured a convoy of 86 waggons and j 9000 rounds of ammunition. I A number of Boor sympathisers at Swcllenrlham h«ve beeu arrested. Commandant Smut and 120 men trekked 30 miles south of Edenburg acroES the railway in the direction of Basutoland. Three rebels were executed at Graafrei net, and ten were sentenced to penal servitude for lite in the Bermudas.