THE TRANSVAAL WAR.

Manawatu Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 7162, 13 February 1901, Page 2

THE TRANSVAAL WAR.

(Press. Association.—Copyright.) London, February 11. Mrkrugeris still promising General Botha European interference in the present struggle. Colonel Cunningham is watching General De La Eey's force of 2000 men near Krugersdorp, west of Pretoria. A disloyalist at Kitnberley fhas been sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment and a fine of £300 for uttering insults against the late Queen and disfiguring her portrait. Major Brereton commanding at Steynsberg, in Cape Colony, on the Middleburg-Aliwal North railway, has called in all males, farmers and others, from sixteen to forty * ears of age lest the enemy should commandeer them. If the men disobey the order and join the commandoes when commandeered, they will be considered guilty of high treason if found in the ranks of the enemy.

The Boer invasion of Portuguese territory is intended to facilitate the landing of an Austrian cargo of contraband goods at Kosi Bay, in the British territory of Tonga Land, south of Delagoa Bay. British and Portuguese warships on the coast are on the alert. Major Haig, in command of a strong mixed force, is driving the Midland invading commando northwards past Aberdeen, about 130 miles north-west of Port Elizabeth.

London, February 12. In a sharp fight at Klipkraal Junction, twenty-five miles north of Victoria West, m Cape Colony, Kruitzinger's commaudo killed six, wounded eight and captured fifteen of the South African Light Horse and the Seventh Dragoon Guards.

Adelaide, February 12. Lieut. F. D. Muir, of the Fifth South Australian Contingent, was a lancecorporal in the First Contingent. He previously held a commission in the New Zealand forces.

London, February 12. Captain D. H. McLean, of the linpeußl Yeomanry, an Australian, who rowed in the Oxford University boat races in the 'eighties, died from fever at Johannesburg.