THE TRANSVAAL WAR.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4294, 1 March 1901, Page 7

THE TRANSVAAL WAR.

*,—. ... A BATTLE IMMINENT. (iiiii’ox dio wet tightened. (Received March 1, 0,30 ii.m.) LONDON, February 28. Mr Rennet Burleigh, correspondent of the ‘‘Daily News,” rallied on Tuesday evening •hat. the Orange River wa.s f.t.ill lilt'll, and that, fire British column-. were I ightening t heir i^rij> en Mr Steve and General l)e Wet. Commandant llerlzog is near IVri nsville, and the liril.is.li patrols are engaged. A battle is imminent. CA PITRES BY ‘II IK BRi'ITSII. (Receded February 28 10. Id p.m.' B()N DON, February 2d Forty Boers Were captured near Willi nvinore, in the south of Cape Cofony. Connnandaut Seheeper’s. laager al Wil-low-more was captured when the hulk of the commando was absent. GENERAL FRENCH’S SUCCESSES. (Received February 28, 10.15 p.m.) BOX DOX, February 27. Bord Kitchener, who has readied M iddelburg, on the Delagoa Bay railway, reports that up to the 2dtli inst. (leneral French’s additional captiire.s tverc as follows :-—()ue nineteen-pounder Krupp pun, one. howitzer, one Maxim, twenty thousand rounds of small arms ainmnnit ion, six thousand cattle, ten I honsand sheep, and 287 waggons. i There were no British casualties. ’ Tin* Beers at Pretoria are filled with : (■(■nsfernai ion at (leneral French’s sia-j FUR REN DER OF BOERS. ! (Received February 28, 10. !d p.m.) LONDON, February 27. I hree hundred Boers surrenden,l to (leneral Freneh after some lighting. (IRANT OF A PENSION. I Received Fehrnarv 28, 10.55 pm.) SYDNEY, February VS. 'I he Imperial Clovernment has a ar ( |. eil the widow of Lieutenant J. (1 Grieve. nl the New Sonfh Wales forces, who was lulled at Paardehiirg in February, lOitfi, r. bile all.idled tvi the Royal HigUun'la pension of (;8() a year, a eompas■lemde allowance of £ld yearly for cadi of Mie ehihlren, and -gratuities annum!. in.fr 1,, t I 00. MISCELLANEOUS. LONDON, February 27. Commandant Hertzog is .striving to join (leneral Do Wet at Petnifville, twenty miles north-east of Philips!own. ■ The Boers tinder (leneral Lucas Meyer, are retreating before. Lieut.-General French and Colonel R. N. Read into the Pongoia hush, on the Swaziland iron-

General Botha. is between Ermek and Middeihurg, on the Delagoa Railway. The War Olliec is increasing the numher of Veornailry For the Capo to fifteen t honsand. 'l’on thousand reinforcements, mostly mounted troops and artillery, will sad before March i-tth. In the House of Commons, the ‘Right Hon W. St. J. lirndrick, Secretary of Slate for War, stated that those Boer women detained in British camps whose husbands were on commando had been placed on reduced rations. Other Boer women were on full rations. Mr Bonnet Burleigh, war correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph,” slates (hat the Australians serving in South Africa, greatly desire to bo included in one command. The following casualties have occurred in recent engagements: Victorian Bushmen—Privates Fisher and Holloway severely wounded; Privates Pearson and Jones, slightly wounded. Wesl Australian .Bushmen— Privates Bat tan and Burke, severely wounded. AUSTRALIAN CONTINGENTS. SYDNEY, February L’d. The two thousand men required for the Imperial Contingent have been on-; rolled. THE SEVENTH CONTINGENT. NELSON, February ‘iS. The Nelson and West t oast members of the Seventh Contingent will leave hen; for Wellington on Monday.

The Canterbury division of the contnunnit arrived yesterday, and at once went into camp at Newtown . ark. There is now a muster of over 150 men. Setting-up drill was indulged in yesterday, under the supervision of Scrgt-.-Alajor Macdonald. BACK FROM SOUTH AFRICA. A PARTY "BY THE TALUNK. Several members of the-First Contingent returned home by the steamer Triune, which arrived from Sydney yesterday morning—namely Captain Bartlett, of Taranaki: Sergeou-Captaiu Gud.iray, Hawke's Bay: Farrier-Major t romie, Wellington: Sergeant Watt, Wellington; ami Sergeant-Trumpeter K. Fox, CSinstrlnmdi. ' A nurse, Miss Wnrmiugteu, ol Wanganui, was also a passenger by the Tnlune. Miss Warmington was invalided to Fmglahu' through overwork ami has returned to Wellington vhv Australia, Captain Bartlett joined the First Contingent " as a lieutenant. On Captain Davies’ promotion to the rank of Major, however, he received his captaincy and has well merited the promotion. When Captain Bartlett left Ins comrades Lient.-Colonel Robin was setting out from Pretoria with a company of New Zealanders. Surgeon-Captain Ciodfray, who left the Waipnkuran Hospital to accompany the First Contingent to the front, returns in excellent, health. The doctor was in the thick of The fighting on more than one occasion. At. one time when attending to a woumled New Zealander he received a shot in the thigh himself. After a nnick recovery he returned to the front, and only left when pressing private affairs him to the colony. Sergeant-Trumpeter Fox was a me viber of the crack Canterbury mounted corps, the C.Y.C.t and was Colonel Robin'., galloper while at the front. The men are unanimous in the opinion that the members of the First and Sc coud Contingents are well deserving of a rest, and that they have had a very rough time of it. One who deserves rest perhaps more than anyone else is Colonel Robin. A number of friends met the returned troopers and gave them a hearty wei-ome home. Major Owen and Captain Joyce greeted them on behalf of the Government and invited them to dinner at the Empire Hotel, in the afternoon. The men all appear to be in excellent, health and fit enough to embark 0:1 another campaign to-morrow The Premier has received a cable message from Sir Alfred Milner stating that Private A. W. Dudley, Private .1. P. Roberts and Nurse Dora Peifer are dangerously ill at Pretoria. Dudley came from Christchurch. Roberts from Nelson, and Nurse Peifer from Addington.