BULLER'S REAR THREATENED.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 9835, 7 August 1900, Page 3

BULLER'S REAR THREATENED.

Delarey Retiring.

More Boer Treachery.

United Press Association. By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.

(Received Aug. 6, 10.50 p.m.)

London, Aug 6

Christian Botha, with three thousand men, is laagered between Amerspoort and Erroelo, north east and east of Standerton, and thus threatens General Buller's rear, and railway communication between Standerton qnA "TSTRtjll Commandant Delarey is retiring before Major-General lan Hamilton after a stubborn attempt to bold the hills round Magliesberg. Three hundred Boers resisted the Argyles and Berkshires with six guns for five hours. A party of Boers at Waterval volunteered to surrender if a show of capturing them was made. A patrol of Strathcona's Horse approached the rendezvous appointed, in extended order. The Boers fired, killing two and wounding two. The rest of the patrol escaped. Many residents in Pretoria are being exiled. One has been sentenced to 25 years for cruel and shameful treatment of a Britisher. Lieut.-General French reconnoitred thirty miles north east of Middleburg without meeting any organised resistance from the Boers. Colonel Downing has occupied Harrismith," blocking Commandant Oilivier's escape to the Drakensberg mountains. The Marquis of Lansdowhe, Minister for War, announced that _-7in. guns would in future form part of the field force equipment.

[per pkess association.] Wellington, Last night. A cable from the officer commanding at the Cape, states that Captain A. Hutson, of the Second New Zealand Contingent, has been slightly wounded, but is getting better.