IN NORTH CAPE COLONY.

Evening Post, Volume LIX, Issue 45, 22 February 1900, Page 5

IN NORTH CAPE COLONY.

BOER ATTACK ON NAAUWPOORT. THE ENEMY BEATEN OFF PY THE AUSTRALIANS. (Received February 22, 9.25 a.m.) CAPETOWN, 21st February. An attack waa made by the Boer* on Tuesday upon Naauwpoort, the station at the junction of the main railway into the Free State — that running past Colesberg to Normal's Pont, along which the British troops in this direction have lately retired — with the east and west crosscountry line. Two hundred Australians defended the camp and town, under Captain J. G. Legge, of the New South Wales Infantry, Captain Howland, of the South Australian Mounted Infantry, and Captain M'Leish, of the Victorian Mounted Rifles. Two guns supported the \novements of the colonial troops

Tho fighting lasted all day, and by nightfall the assailants had been repelled and had also been shelled out of the neighbouring kopjes. The Westraliau Contingent was engaged the same day in reconnoitring to the eastward of Naauwpoort, under Captain Moor, and were engaged by the enemy, but the only casualty was the wounding of one man, thanks to the clever manner in which the detachment made use of cover. ,