THE WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CV, Issue 12532, 20 June 1901, Page 5

THE WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA.

KRUGER'S INVESTMENTS. CAPTURE OF A BRITISH PATROL. United Press Association—3y: Sleotrlo Telegraph—Copyright.' ' ■ LONDON, June 18. General Elliot's prisoners were in a deplorable condition. Some, when captured, were wearing women's skirts. It is rumoured.that Mr Kruger is selling Transvaal South Africam securities and reinvesting the money an Consols, French rentes and other Continental stocks. Commandant Viljoen commanded the Boers at Steenkovespruit. Commandant Maritz, with 150 f olowers, surrounded a British patrol and killed two, wounded two, and captured twenty. A' British column has gone in pursuit. Commandant Beyer's force is laagered in a deep kloof at Zand River Poert, northwest of Warmbaths. t Two attempts to dislodge it have proved resultless. THE RAIDERS IN CAPE COLONY. LONDON, June 19. Eight commandos, comprising 1500-men, are operating in the midlands of Cape Colony, and 300 are operating in the Western Provinces. CAPTURE OF A LAAGER. LONDON, June 19. The Heidelberg Volunteers captured a laager,, nine Boers, and 4900 sheep and cattle. MAJOR MADOCKS. • [From Ottb Correspondent.] DUNEDIN, June 19. The "Star" has excellent authority for saying that the Premier has called the at-, tention of the Imperial Government to the absence of any recognition; o£ the services of Major Madocks at New Zealand Hill and elsewhere in South Africa. It is confidently anticipated that Mr Seddon's 00mmunieation will induce the authorities at the War Office to consider the claims of that officer. I shall not be surprised to'hear ere long that the has been created a Commander of the Bath. Trooper J. Pye, of the Sixth Contingent, writing from Pietermaritzburg, on April 10, to his friends atMilford, ears:— "Our Troop-Sergeant, Sergeant B. Hodgson, has been out heTe before, and abetter man would be hard to find.. He is a regular battler, both'for 'his men and horses." Sergeant Hodgson is a son of Mr Twentyman Hodgson, and his friends will be sorry -to hear that about a month after the date of Trooper. Pye's letter, he was admitted to the Pretoria Military Hospital suffering from an affection of the eyes.