TO-DAY'S CABLEGRAMS

Feilding Star, Volume XXI, Issue 126, 27 November 1899, Page 2

TO-DAY'S CABLEGRAMS

BOERS SURPRISED AT WILLOW GRANGE. EIGHTY BAYONETED. CAPE DUTCH JOINING THE BOERS, SEIZURE OF BRITISH RESIDENTS. MORNING POST'S CORRESPONDENT WOUNDED. WHERE ARE THE PROHIBITIONISTS ? Telegraph. Press Association. Copyright CAPETowN,.November 26, General Lord Met'uuen has remonstrated with the Boer commander for treachery in displaying the white flag, and also for using Dum Dum bullets at Belmont. ;. Reconnaisancea have ■ revealed two strong Boer commandos with guns in the high lauds, but none south of the Mooi river. • < The British surprised the Boers at Willow Grange, and eighty were bayoa etted. The British had three killed and 44 wounded, chiefly owing to the Boers quick firing guns having a longer range than the Britisb. Four hundred Cape Dutch, including the Magistrate at Barliley, have joined the Boers. ;■ The disloyalists have- seized the town; of Lady Grey. There is a geueral inoVeaien.t in /favour.

of the Boers. I Commandant Grobler has seized ten ! leading Britishers in Colesburg whom he : threatens to shoot if Vauranstmrg is shot. S. Knight, the Morning Post's special correspondent, was wounded by a dum i : dum bullet at the battle of Belmont. A detachment of New South Wales Lancers, in conjunction with a body of j infantry, checked the advance of tbe euemy at Wittepufca, Sydney, This Day. The Governor has received a cable from his brother, the Hon. Robert Lyon, second Lieutenant of the Grenadier Guards, stating he was slightly wounded at Belmont. Launceston, Nov. 27. A well-known firm has donated a bottle of whisky as a Christmas gift to each of the Tasiuanian contingent in the Transvaal.