THE NATAL SITUATION.
CONFIRMATION OF GENERAL BULLER'S SPEECH.
Reconnaissance by Dundonald.
INCIDENTS OF THE 3PIONKOP FIGHT.
Speech by the Under Secretary of War.
180,000 BRITISH TROOPS in the FIELD in a FORTNIGHT.
Roberts Organising the Forces.
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DURBAN, February 2. Lord Dundonald reconnected Hongjuspoort, in the vicinity of the Tu.?ela, without molestation by the
•nemy,
At the Spionkop engagement the ; British shot a corporal of an irregular regiment raised in Natal for shaking hands with an. acquaintance in the
jnemy's lines
LONDON, February 1
The report of General Buller's speech on Monday, stating that he expected to reach. Ladysmith in a week nas been confirmed.
Two hundred and fifteen British were missing- after the engagement at Spionkop, chiefly belonging to the Lancashire Fusiliers. .. ..
Mr Bennett Burleigh, the -\velllaiown war correspondent, states that the Boers were in the act of abandoning Spionkop when the British retirement induced them to return.
General Buller had detached a force to create a diversion next day, before hearing of the abandonment.
WELLINGTON, this day.
The Hon. 'Hill-Trevor, assistant private secretary to the Governor, has received a cable 'from the War Office stating that his. younger brother, was killed in the fight at Spionkop,
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 29, 3 February 1900, Page 5
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