WESTERN TRANSVAAL CAMPAIGN.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 195, 17 August 1900, Page 5

WESTERN TRANSVAAL CAMPAIGN.

PLUCKY STAND OF ELANDS RIVER GARRISON.

HAMILTON HURRYING TO THEIR RELIEF.

ENEMY RE-OCCUPY RUSTENBURG.

[N.Z. Press Associa'

LONDON, August 16

' Colonel Hoare's column was resisting on tjte ,10th, though the Boers' shelling was terrifi6.

General Hamilton lias been instructed -to -assist Colonel Hoare, Whose garrison T. still resisting, their casualties being 67.

[General Hamilton's mounted division was reported to be moving south with a view to intercepting De Wet's commando.] /

After traversing the worst stretch of road, General Carrington has been ordered to return forthwith to

Zeerust,

LONDON, August 15. ' Two squadrons of the Victorian Mounted Infantry, under Colonel Baker, relieved a British patrol which was surrounded near Mafeking by a strong body of Boers. The iVictorians had two casualties.

Commandant Grobelar is marching on Mafeking.

General Baden-Powell destroyed the fortification* before evacuating Rustenburg, 60 miles west of Pretoria, which the Boers have reoccupied.

WELLINGTON, Thursday,

Mr Reeves cabled to the Premier, under date August 15,"11.40 p.m.: "Lord Eoberts reports that the small force at Elands River station, which was reported to have been captured jwas holding out on the 10th. There had been 67 casualties. A Queensland lieutenant was the only officer killed."