THE POSITION IN CAPE COLONY.
Gatacre reinforced.
*o,ooq VOLUNTEERS 'IN THE FIELD.
BOERS WRECK A RAILWAY.
(Received 10:i5 a.m.)
CAPETOWN, December 8.
The West Australian- contingent, w ho since arrival have been doing Bight picketing at the Orange Rivet station, close to the south-western extremity of the Free State territory, nave joined General Gat-acre,''who commands the third division of the army corps in the north-oi Cape Colony. • Two batteries of ay tillery and-other reinforcements have been added to General Gatacre's cpmma-nd. The General reports that the spread of rebellion in the north of Cape Colony hampers the movements of his forces.
.CAPETOWN, December 7. Ten thousand Cape volunteers are now in the-field.
The Boers have annexed the Dordreclit district.
The Boers wrecked Tndwe coalfields railway. [The Indwe coalfields,; where the best coal in the Stormberg Mountains is procured,, are 25 miles from Dordrecht, and CG miles from Sterkstroom. They, are connected with the latter place by a railway completed in. 1895.]
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Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 292, 9 December 1899, Page 5
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