THE TRANSVAAL WAR.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4296, 4 March 1901, Page 7

THE TRANSVAAL WAR.

CABLE NEW S.

rNLTJRT) rmcss ASSOCIATION. —RY klkctku TKLKOItAPH. —COPYRIGHT.

— ♦ . - RECENT FIGHTING. PURSUIT OK DE WET. t I!l'ci'ivcd March 3. -1.37 p.m i LONDON, March 2. '('lie London, “Times’ cqiTC.'jion.'eiit, report ing Iron; ilopi loivu in ’cgcd to reccnl- do),lino. says Hint Major-General i'liiincr overlook General He W"i on Kebniiiry 17th al a- depot westwr .-.I of llie railway. Plinner’s supplies demo oxliau-tol, 111. halted at Haaow Pan. to the vest nl' Klsievlie, on the ISfh, in ir.i v to n-lil, leaving three strong pain/- to bang on to be Wet’s rear, and v. a fell the river drifts. i The patrol.-, behaved splendidly, ano (ouch was inuiulaiiiGcl with Major-tone, ml Knox, who was enabled to ;• n;/r Ilio enemy’s intentions.

'Vbe Hrltisb southern columns we e so marshalled as to prevent a juneti.i.i ol I he invaders from, south and vest .

Do Web tried to reeross the < • ■nee river at Brakkics. _ Small parties crossed in a but (lie main eoinniando was unable to establish, a ford.

They headed from the river in the direction of Prieska, but they ■■ere again repelled towards one of the (Lifts. ' Plainer, when be had obtained supplies, again resumed operations, a,ml prevented the enemy's passage of Mark's Drift, and, captured a him Led orisoners. When Colonel Owen, on the. fiord Kehrnary, captured the last oi Ihe Doers’ guns. Dot Wet’s rearguard, during the silent watches of the n Hit, slipped by the Kimberley column, and n'crossed the railway. De Wet, with Herl/aig, went Lev,ids (be Zand Drift. The majority of the commando dispersed or surrendered. De Wet, in bis fanaticism, is reps ted j to bo demented, lie Hogs everybody. Commandant. Haasbrook, whose ( >m-1 inn ndo remains compact, ret uses i.l eo-j operate with De Wet. The correspondent was not allow ■ I. to | indicate the new British eoncentr s inn, i a- bis message preceded Lord K 4 even-I er’n latest despatch. I ESCAPE OF DE WET. j TELEGRAMS FROM LOUD j KITCHENER. j (Received March 3, 4.37 p.m.) ! LONDON, March ‘3. ' Lord Kitchener has returned to Pretoria. Ho telegraphs that Genera', De Wet has been forced north, over the Orange river, two hundred' of his fo.lovers and other stragglers being captn; ed. MISCELLANEOUS. ; LONDON, March I. I General De Wet, Mr Steyn and Commandants Hert/.og and Brand, with two thousand mein, are moving south in the direction of Colesbcrg, imping to < :-oss into the Orange Colony at Xni rd s Pont. Yesterday the raiders bad n ached a point oast of Pliilipstown, r .oir, midway between. Petrusville and C.'esbeti’g. . , Major-General Smitji-Dorrion. and tO- - Alderson, operating in the Ea-tero Transvaal, report large captures otstock, waggons and prisoners. They state that tlie enemy is demorallsrtl. Sir Alfred Milner has gone north rroai Capetown to assume the duties o: administration cf the now colonies Tlie British Government is steadily . sending men and horses to bonth Africa to relieve those who have been tigliang for any length of time, and to make good the waste from casualties and 01sease, SEVENTH CONTINGENT. CANTERBURY DIVISION. The Canterbury Division of the Contingent, under Captain H. S. E. Dobday. arrived yesterday b ythe Kolwina-, liana from Lyttelton, and at once or - eeeded 1 to Newtown Park. Subjoined a. list of the division: —■ North Canterbury: Troopers J. N. Armstrong, W. Anthony, E. A. Bor.kes, A, Brown, X. J. Butt, O. G. Campbell, P. J Cotton, G. Duncan, L. Ditely, E. J. Foster, S. Fowler, T. J. Frame, H. G. Gilbert, J. C. Harvey, C. .Hunter, L. Hardy, J. King, S. W. Kelly. .1 . Legg, R. Lees, D. H. MeDiarmid. J. McLelland. D. McKenzie, J. T. MiLar. A. R. Noonan V D. R- Ilevell, A. Ro- j sunowaski, R. Spencer, O. H. Turner, ; H. E. Timms, J. Weir, R. J. Westrop, | P. Coijdon, W. J. Byrne. South Canterbury: Sergeant C. 11. Bowkcr, Troopers W. Andrews, D. Barr, R. Bonnett, J. H. Carter, P. Campbell, S. Cooper, W. H, Cooke, 0. ('rawford, C. Creamer, M. J. Curtin, A. I). Gibson, L. Hammond, W. Has tie, G. X. Langford, K. Malcolm, D. McLaren. ; C. E. N. Minilie, H. Page, E. A. Rilfe, ; IV. Rutherford, C. Sharplin, A. Smith, ( W. Stevenson,' J. Tomlinson, J. Turner, W. Pritchard, E. Waters, A. Webb. A. J. Whitney, W. H. Ross, E. A. Adams, D. Brace, J. Isbestcr, Trumpeter E. Tovey.

Trooper Ross, one of the Canterbury draft for the Seventh Contingent, .slipped down on the vessel while coming up to "Wellington, and suffered concussion ol the brain. He was removed to the Hospital on arrival in Wellington, and at a late hour last night was reported to be progressing favourably. In accordance with a request from the Imperial Government, Mr Seddon lias agreed to send an additional medical man to South Africa. Surgeon-Major limns, of llpncdin, who was with the hirst. Contingent, lias been selected to fill the office. Dr Dawson will nr ompany the Seventh Contingent. The Premier has received a cablegram from Capetown, which states that "Xo. 1062, Corson, Fourth New Zealand Rough Riders, died of enteric fever on February 26th at Krugersdorp.’’ This advice refers to Private'D. M. Corson of Dunedin, whoso death was notified in a Press message from London a few days ago.

A member of the Imperial Yeomanry, describing the fight at Rhenoster Ivo'p where the New Zealanders gained distinction, states that “a New Zealand farrier, a man of giant build, was mortally wounded above the groin. He went oil firing, saying that was the only way he could forget the pain. Another thickset young fellow, now lying in, the Yeomanry Hospital at Pretoria, was shot through the shoulder. He rolled over, swore, and then crawled slowly away cut of the firing line. Having‘gone : omo twenty yards, a second ball took bi n in the calf of the right leg. Then he ;ose, and s,wore defiantly that no Boer bullet would stop him. As ho stood, a third hall grazed his elbow, and next moment, forgetting his wounds, ho was sprinting down the slope for dear life.”