RIMINGTON SURPRISES A LAAGER.
STEYN AND THE CUP TO BE
DRAINED.
Received February 3, 9 a.m.
London, February 2. Colonel Rimington, on Thursday, surprised a laager north of Orange, and captured twenty-two of the enemy, sixteen waggons, and provisions. Three hundred joined Colonel Vilonel's scouts during the week, and many surrendering burghers are requesting to be permitted to retain their arms and horses for the purpose. The deaths are reported of Private Thomas Drenton, Seventh New Zealanders, from chloroform poisoning, and Sergeant William Moore, Sixth New Zealand Contingent, of enteric. Fischer, interviewed, asserted that ex-President Steyn, in a recent order to the commandos, stated : "We will drain the cup to the dregs, though we believe in our final success."
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7378, 3 February 1902, Page 2
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119RIMINGTON SURPRISES A LAAGER. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7378, 3 February 1902, Page 2
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