THE TRANSVAAL WAR

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1510, 7 February 1901, Page 57

THE TRANSVAAL WAR

NEW ZEALANDERS IN ACTION

FIGHTING AT BALMORAL.

REPULSE OF AN ATTACK,

LONDON, January 28. Four hundred Boers on Wednesday attacked a hundred and twenty New Zealanders and Queenslanders, commanded by Major Truebridge, who were patrolling the Dslagoa railway near Balmoral, fifty-five miles east of Pretoria. . Everything depended on who should first reach and seize a kopje commanding the railway and camp. The colonials won, and held the position until reinforced, losing two killed and six wounded. Two, colonials on the extreme left maintained such a steady fire that it prevented the Boers outflanking their comrades. MINOR ENGAGEMENTS. LONDON, January 28. Colonel Cunningham, oh Friday, engaged General De la Rey at Kofferfontein. Four British were killed and thirty-nine wounded. On Major-General Babirigton threatening their flank the Boers retired westward. Major-General Smith-Dorien had a fiVvi hours’ fight with and defeated a considerable Boer force between Wor-der-fontein ancl Carolina, in the Eastern Transvaal. On the British side one man was killed and fifteen wounded. Colonel Cunningham’s brigade has expelled a large forco from a strong position at Olifant’s Nek in the Magaliesberg range ? driving the enemy eastward, after several days’ continuous fighting. The Boer losses were considerable. ■- LONDON, January 29. Colonel Plumer has dispersed several small, bands bf Boers at Bronkhur&b Spruit, ; .east of, Pretoria. . . THE OPERATION OF MARTIA£ , LAW. LONDON, January 29. Owing to the operation of martial law, which has been proclaimed over the whole pf Cap e Colony, Mr Cronwright, husband of Mrs Cronwright-Schreiner (Miss. Olive Schreiner) has not,been allowed to leave' the Hanover district.. 'Another batch of undesirables lias been expelled front Durban. b> ‘ Ji SLEEPING BOERS. uv. YoNDON, Yahu€rry 29. A ; squadron, of .. Hussars surrounded a farm near, Standertoh and captured six sleeping Boers. Some Englishmen who were prisoners were released? ■ ■'' : .MR.'STEYN;ON r THE WING. ' ; ? -?/? LONDON, January 30. General Brue Hamilton reached Venter shurg, ; south of Krooustad, too late to intercept Mr Steyn, Who has gone to Winbiirg; AN OFFICIAL APPOINTMENT. . * . . LONDON, January 30. Mr R. Solomon, ; Q .CL, who was formerly Attorhey'-G.erieral, has been appointed legal; adviser to the Transvaal Administration. The'appointment is likely to conciliate the Dutch. , , ; ? : D£ WET AGAIN ON THE MOVE: LONDON. January 29. General De ? Wet and . Commandant Petersoii,i - commanding five hundred Boers, crossed the railway line between Ventersburg and Holfontein during the night of the 23rd, and .escaped, though twenty-five Britishers in ambush killed five Boers. _-/.;-; * ■ • MOVEMENTS OF RAIDING PARTIES. : LONDON, January 29. , The raiders were twice repulsed at Oudtshoom, south-east of Pnnoe Albert and 200 miles east of Capetown.

They abandoned a number of horses and waggons. .The cold reception Of the Boers at Euruman discouraged them, and theya<re returning to the Transvaal. A number of cattle belonging to Mr Cecil Rhodes have been raided near Kimberley. A NEW MOUNTED COLUMN. LONDON, January 29. Lord Kitchener has selected General Dartnell, who guided Major - General Yule’s column through the Biggarsberg Pass in the famous march t;om Dundee to Ladysmith, to command a mobile/ column consisting of ixitchener’s bodyguard, the Johannesburg Rifles and Gough’s mounted men. MR KRUGER’S ILLNFSS. LONDON, January 29. The ‘'Daily Express” announces that the doctors despair of being able to save Mr Kruger’s life. THE SLYPKIP AFFAIR. LONDON, January 29. The cattle captured by the Boers from a stock and provision train at Slypkip, twenty miles north of Kimberley, lave been retaken. Some Dublin Fusiliers were captured when the enemy seized the train. The fireman of the train escaped and raised an alarm, thus preventing the capture of a second train. MISCELLANEOUS. LONDON, January 29. The Hon W. P. Reeves, Agent-Gen-eral for New Zealand, has handed to Earl Roberts a historic greenstone mere on behalf of some Maori admirers. Eighteen German field guns, of. the newest model procurable have been landed at Queenstown, to be shipped to South Africa, with carriages and waggons complete. Nine hundred Hungarian horses have been shipped from Fiume, an Austrian port at .the head of the Adriatic Sea, for the Cape. George Brand, leader of the eastern raiders, threatens to prove that a hundred Cape Dutch invited the Boer 3 to invade the colony, and when there refused to join them. (Received January 31, 1.9 a.m.) LONDON. January 30. Sir 'A. Milner has warned the Cape Dutch that they will receive no compensation for any damage they may sustain unless they assist the military. NEW ZEALAND CASUALTIES. KILLED AND WOUNDED. The Government has been advised by Sir Alfred Miines/ Sigh at the Cape, of the following casualties to members of the New Zealand Second Contingent at Balmoral: —Captain G. T. Crawshaw, of Oamaru; Corporal W. Seavill, of Waingaro, Auckland; and Private W. Paul, of Palmerston South, severely wounded. Private W. Yewdall, o ! f Raglan, and Private E. A. Wigmore, of Remuera, Auckland, killed. Sergeant S. J. Henderson, of Blenheim, wounded; / ? , v .Sir Alfred Milner has: cabled to the Government that Private C. K. Ward, of Port" Chalmers (Fourth Contingent) died of enteric fever? at Johannesburg on 25th January, and that Private T. R. Moss, of. Winchester, Canterbury (Third Contingent) is dangerously ill at Pretoria.