THE BOER WAR.

Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 121, 1 June 1901, Page 2

THE BOER WAR.

CASUALTIES TO COLONIALS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, May 80. Major-General W. Knox was aboard tho armored train which w-as recontly dynamited southwards of Vredefort road. One officer and a sergeant were sovorly mAllondy on Saturday surprised Joachim Prinsloo’s laager at Vilgorovct, and captured many Boors, with rifles, ammunition, and cattlo. ,33 Diebenberg’s commando, four hundred strong, twico desperately iittackod a convoy at Rietfoutein Drift. Tho Boors wero repulsed with tho loss of fourtoon killed and niuo wounded. Fiftoon British wore wounded. Boor raiders in tho vicinity of Colosborg have rc-crossod tho Orange River. Captain Malcolm Hepswoll, of the South Australian Bushmen, has died of enteric. , . . , Tho following casualties are reported from fighting between Bethel and Standerton : South Australian Bushmen : Private Goodes, killed; Corporal Lansdell and Privato Hichs, wounded. Queensland Bushmen : Privates Hunt and Hendry, killed; Corporal Mitchell and Privates Whoatloy, Hilvey, Mason, Campbell, Careless, Swconoy, and Tornp, wounded. „ - , , One oE tho lOtli Hussars wm lulled, and seven wounded. Two oC tho Ist Munster Fusiliers wore killed and six wounded ; one of tho Somerset Regiment was killed and four wounded; a privato of tho lltli Lancers was killed, and an Engineer wounded. No official details of tho fighting liavo been received, tho Standard’s correspondent boing responsible for the report Viljoen’s attack on Plumer. The total casualties reported, including minor engagements in tho Transvaal and Orange rivor and Capo Colony, aro thirty killed and fifty-eight wounded. Tho following casualties at Klippan aro , reported :—Victorian Mounted Rifles : j Lieutenant Wodd, sovoroly; Privates l Town and Corloan, slightly wounded.

ATTACK NEAR BETHEL. By Tolegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, May 31. Later reports show that a mixod fo.„o of Queensland Bushmon, Royal Munster Fusiliers, and other troops, escorting a convoy near Bethel, wero attacked on tho 25th. A running fight took place, lasting sis hours. Colonel Plum'or’s main column lias brought to Standcrton sovoral waggousful of families, a thousand cattlo, aud many horses. Sir J. Hutchinson, Govornor of Capo Colony, has made a short tour of tho southern districts of tho colony, going as far north as Worcester. Fivo Rand minors aro working the Goldonliuis Deep aud May Consolidated mines, operating thirty and fifty stampers V respectively. INVADERS CAPTURE 500 HORSES. By Tolegraph—Press Association —Copyright London, May 81. Allcnby has deprived Priusloo of a Colt gun. Tho Daily Mail states that tho invaders captured fivo hundred horses noar Colosburg. RAIDERS DODGE THE' BRITISH ALLEGED SORRY PLIGHT OF BOTHA. By Tolegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, May 31. Tho Times’ correspondent says that owing to tho concentration of tho British forces covering Cradock and Farkastad, Kruitzinger’s raiders have gone to tho vicinity of Moltenta. Thrco British columns are pursuing them. Tho Daily Express reports that Brabant states that tho Cape Dutch farmers aro incensed at tho wholesale Boer looting, - and that thoy will readily communicato information to the defence forces.

Trains coming from northward of Queenstown have boon suspended. Mr Bennett Burleigh states that it is reported from trustworthy sourcos that Botha and the Boers’ Government aro north-west of Ermelo, in a wretched plight. Botha’s force consists of only 600 fighters, three pom-poms, and a high velocity gun, with scarcely any ammunition. • j