The Transvaal WAR.

Evening Star, Issue 11251, 26 May 1900, Page 5

The Transvaal WAR.

RUNDLE AT LADYBRAND. STEYN’S LATEST ADVICE. DEATHS FROM FEVER. * LORD ROBERTS’S HEALTH. Press Association— By Telegraph— Copyiight. GUARDING AGAINST DOUBLE DEALING. LONDON, May 25. General Bundle in freely commandeering tho horses, carts, and stock in tho Lady brand district, and keeping all those who surrender under strict surveillance. STEVE’S FOLLY. LONDON. May 25, Mr Steyn has persuaded tho Free Staters to continue the struggle, declaring that Lord Roberts’s clemency proclamation lias been rescinded, and that all who surrender will he deported to St. Helena, THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF. LONDON, May 25. Lord Roberts’s exertions are considered wonderful for a man of his years. His health is splendid. FJ'JVER AT VRYBURG. LONDON, May 25. Enteric fever is raging at Vryburg, and many deaths have already occurred. RESTORING THE LINE. EXPEDITIOUS REPAIRS. LONDON, May 25. General Hunter will open the VryburgMafeking section of the line within a week. Trains are already running between Mafeking and Bulawayo. ANOTHER ESCAPEE. SYDNEY, May. 26 The Governor has received a cable stating that Trooper Evans, of the First Australian Horse, who was missing after Slingerefontein in January last, escaped from Pretoria, and picked up the British troops at Lobatsi. A BIG BAZAAR. LONDON, May 25. A bazaar is being held at Kensington in aid of tho wounded. Many members of the royal families and aristocracy are acting as stallholders. The Emperor of Germany sent a splendid contribution of porcelain. Twenty thousand pounds were taken on the first day. A NEWSPAPER “AD.” LONDON, May 25. The Prince of Wales guardedly approves of the ‘ Daily Express ’ memorial scheme. MELBOURNE, May 26. The Premier favors the war memorial proposal emanating from a London paper. SIR GFORGE WHITE. INVERCARGILL, May 26. The Acting-Premier has received the following cable from Sir George White : “London, May 25. Very grateful for flittering invitation which 1 have received from New Zealand, but I am ordered to Gibraltar on the let July.”