THE WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CVI, Issue 12573, 7 August 1901, Page 5

THE WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA.

UNDER CIVIL LAW. DISCOVERY OF SPECIE, MR STEYTS LETTER. A BRITISH BAYONET CHARGE. MR KRUGER’S DEMANDS. COMMENTS IN, THE NEWSPAPERS. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, ‘August 5. ' The police in eight largo towns in the Transvaal and Orange River Colonies are working under civil administration. A British patrol found under the floor of a farmhouse at Heidelberg a sum of seven thousand pounds sterling, concealed in jam tins. The “ Times ” surmises that Mr Steyris letter from Kroons-tadt is another protest and complaint. The 'Eighteenth Hussars, under Colonel F. W. Kitchener, charged with- bayonets a strong kopje at Oliphant’s River, and drove out Commandant Ben Viljoeivs men, killing and capturing twelve. Manv English and . Continental newspapers consider that the conditions of peace outlined by Mr Kruger in his interview with a representative of “ Figaro-,” prove the impossibility of the concessions suggested by pro-Boer politicians. CAPTURES BY THE BRITISH. TREATMENT OF RAIDERS. (Received August 6, 11 p.m.) t LONDON;: August 6., Seventy waggons and additional prisoners were captured at Boshof, Forty families in the Waterkloof district have been sent to a concentration, camp lest they should harbour raiders. The consensus of, opinion in Capo Colony is that marauding bands should be declared outlaws. RETURNED TROOPERS; [Froji Our Special Correspondent.] WELLINGTON, August 6. The Premier -informs me that the members of the Fourth and Fifth Contingents are entitled to one month’s furlough, and that all returned troopers will be entitled to retain their rifles on condition that they return them to the Government’ when called’ upon. Trooper Lindsay, of the Fifth Contingent, was last night entertained by the vestry, choir, and Sunday school of St Saviour’s Church, West Lyttelton, with which Trooper Lindsay was connected before he left for South Africa. The gathering, which was well -attended, took place in the old Orphanage School, and the Rev E. E. Chambers, the vicar, presided. After an impromptu programme' of music, etc., had been given, the vicar, presented Trooper Lindsay with a gold Maltese cross, suitably inscribed, and welcomed him back, expressing a hope that the habits of dis- ; cipline and self-restraint the trooper had* acquired- in the army would be practised bv him in his after life. Trooper Lindsay shortly replied, -and, refreshments; were handed round. At a meeting held at Lyttelton last night, at which there was a good attendance, principally ladies, it was decided to entertain the Lyttelton returned troopers at a “ social ” next ,Monday evening, and a committee' 'was appointed to make arrangements.