TRANSVAAL FIGHTING.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 211, 5 September 1900, Page 5

TRANSVAAL FIGHTING.

;;.. COLONIALS SUCCESSFULLY MARCH EAST. BUGER & STEYN at MELSPRPIT. ——»i»» ATTACK MADE ON LABYBRAND. *'■V« tii -.. > - . ■ :■ i LARGE FORCE jCONCENTRATED AGAINST THE TOWN »«■»... -. [N.Z. Press Association.— Copyright.]

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LONDON, September 4.

A body of colonial troops marchjn<r from Zeerust, in the Western Transvaal, to Krugersdorp, vest of ■, Johannesburg, were stubbornly op- ,; posed. • The Boers lost heavily. Major Brooke and 100 men defeated the Boers at Krail railway station, between Heidelberg and ■'. .Grelingstad, on the Natal-Transvaal '■railway. Five,of the enemy were killed. Commandant Theron's commando of mixed nationalities is assisting in looting farmers and storekeepers. There is a large commando on the ;Yet Kiver. '•Ex-Presidents Kruger and Steyn * are living in railway carriages at .iNelspruit,- on the Delagoa railway. The carriages are covered by Eed 'Cross hoods... , LONDON, September 3. ;. The Boers on August 31 vainly ■ attempted to destroy the Johannesburg waterworks. General Hart surprised and defeated them. E ""Detachments of De Wet's commando were also defeated in the same neighbourhood with heavy. .Joss, i *.. Colonel Plumer again defeated :;;Boers at Eooikop, capturing • 100 ■rifles, "40,000 rounds of cartridges, i=aixd a large quantity of supplies. Commandant Yiljoen seized a number of ambulance mules sent by ..General Buller to relieve the prisoners at jtfooitgedadit, and utilised t'the mules to remove his big guns. General Buller, who has crossed the Crocodile Kiver, is marching on Lydenburg. '.: Tive hundred Boers released, and armed a m-amber of prisoners confined in the Klip Gaol.