COLONIALS IN ACTION.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXIV, Issue 37, 13 February 1900, Page 2

COLONIALS IN ACTION.

ENGAGEMENTS NEAR COLEBBURG. A GALLANT WEBTRALIAN PARTY. — WOULD NOT BURRENDER. SHOOT MANY OF THE ENEMY. 80ME COLONIAL OABUALTIEB. A WAR CORRESPONDENT KILLED. Londow, February 12. Twenty Westralians discovered Boers placing guns near Slingerafontein, m the Colesburg region. The colonials were shelled from the hill, the Boers attempting tc block their retreat. The enemy approached withia 200 yards, and demanded their surrender, but the Australians fixed bayonets and shouted defiance. Sergt. Edwards and Troopers Hutchison and White galloped under a hot fire past the enemy, and reported thj serious position to the commander of the camp. They expressed themselves confident that their comrades would repel the Boers. The Australians subsequently returned with three of their number wounded. It is believed the Boers suffered considerably, one being shot at a distance of nine yards. The Australians were warmly commended. Capetown, February 12, The Westralians returned when it was dark. One was killed, being shot through the head while binding a comrade's wound. Capetown, February 12. Further details of the reconnaissance made by fifty Australians and Tasraanians on Fiiday show that a troop of Inniskillings, with fifty Victorian Mounted Rifles, under Lieut. SalmoD, supported Major Cameron's advance party. The latter were hotly pursued to within two miles of the British outposts. It is believed that the missing war correspondent has been captured. The supporting party returned safely, Fifty New South Wales mounted infantry, under Lieuts. Holmes and Logan, assisted the Inniskillings jrad artillery m olearing the Boers

from the hills near Blingersfontein, enabling a large convoy to proceed. London, February 12. The Daily Mail's version of the Tasmaoian reconnaissance states that the Tasmanians on Friday repulsed the Boers, disabling 20 of them, and that six Tasmanians are missing. The Victorians, who supported the Taomanians, hotly engaged the enemy, but retired under a severe fire without loss, the Boers losing fourteen. Mr Hale, the Daily News correspondent, was oaptured. London, February 12. A Renter despatoh says that M| Lambie, the Melbourne Age oorrei pondent, was killed, Melbourne, February 12. Mr Lambie, reported killed, was a weJW-known Australian journalist. He took part m the Soudan campaign of 1885. and was also m Samoa during the first war., London, February 12. The Times Capetown correspondent says that the more Colonials sent the better. The continual stream of these troops is producing an incalculable moral effect on the Dutch.