THE TRANSVAAL WAR.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4303, 12 March 1901, Page 7

THE TRANSVAAL WAR.

CABLE NEWS.

tJNITEU PBES3 ASSOCIATION. —BT ELECTRIC T2LEOIUPH. —OOPXBICHT,

K EIRE ATI XU BEFORE FRENCH

DEMDRAUSATION OF THE ENEMY.

LONDON, Marcli 10. l.i'Mil cnunl-Geucral French's troops have bi-i-u fully rationed. The red iremeul of the oneiny before Genera L French’s column is one of continuous trek. H'nrcsooitig capture, the Hoars abandoned women, children and waggons to ihe ce re of I lie Brit'sh soldiers, who Inirned many of the waggons and removed I he, women and children to the prolecl inn of camps'. The Hoar prisoners '.cere liberated on parole. IT!E FIGHT AT LIGHTEN BURG. LONDON, March If). Tie- Kinv; v. ho recent!y attacked Du-lit cno'irc, iorl v miles south-east of MaliT.i.,-', unlabored fifteen hundred. They occupied a poriion of the (own, hut Tetired (ilirio;; Che nighl, after nice) dug •-Ml h a repulse. Private, C. . Peek, of Ihe Now Zee. land AO.ilh-’-v, '.vie; severely wounded deriij:; Ihe fighting. I'l'roopcr Reel; iel'l, the cohniy a-, a member of (he Auckland vei l ion, of Ihe Fillh ('oid iugcnl. | FIG SITING IX CAPE COLONY. (Received A! rch 11, 10.1!) p.m.i LONDON, March 11. Major-General Do Lisle and Colonel (lorrinjc.i engaged Commnndaiit Kruitzingiv’s rearguard at Commadagga, on I lie. (!n:at Fish Elver, sixfy-two miles norih-ea .1 of’ Port Elizabeth. The I'ocrs (lad directly the artillery opened on them. DJi WET’S COMMANDOES. (H-m.-cived 1 March 11, 10.10 p in.) LONDON, March 1,1. It was Connuaudant Bolhomaii’n (not Froneuiair s, aw previously renortod) and Commandant Sleenkatnp’s commandoes which crossed the Jtodder River near Abraham's Kraal. General Oe Wei. Mr Sf.eyn ;uid Commandant Eroncman arc between Spring. I.iokfonlcin and Dewctsdorp, south-east of BJir.-mfoiiD-in. MISCELLANEOUS. LONDON, March 10. Major-General De Lisle is clearing ' liie Doers out of the Bccuw river dis- ■ frict of Cano Colony. : Arrangements are being made for an * early return of a limited number of re- I fn-gcos to Johannesburg. 1 Lieutenant I l '. A. Maxwell, of the 1 India Staff Corps, now Aidc-do-Camp ’ to Lord Kitchener, has been awarded 1 Ibc Victoria Crows for conspicuous bra- 1 very at Koornspniit in March last year. 1 Sergeant Davidson, of the New South AVales Bushmen, has died of enteric at Pretoria.. (Received March 12. 0.22 am.) 1 LONDON. Marc!. 11. ' The Boers attacked entrenched camps ’ al- Aiosilekatze Nek and Dekpoort on 1 Wednesday, hut were repulsed. 1 MELBOURNE, March 11. ’J 'flic Government has been advised 1 that the Fifth Victoria. Contingent has * arrived' at the Cape, all well- * SmVKY, March 11. On the occasion of the return of his s two sons from the front, Mr J. 11. j Lcgge, of Gosford, was publicly present- c ed with an. autograph photo of- the late ( Queen; forwarded by .her Majesty in j November in recognition of his sending j six sons to .the war in South Africa. i THE SEVENTH CONTINGENT. j Captain Contts, .of the Canterbury ] Company, was officer of the day yes- < terday. 1 The parade state of each compaily yes- i terday* was —Woliington, 117, including 1 six officers (Captain G. R. Johnston, i Lieutenants J. Drury, AV. C. Forsythe) « E. AV. LAEst range, H. Cameron, and ,P. « T. Emerson) Canterbury, 74 .includ- < trig five officers (Captain H. JD. Cputts, ] Lieutenants J. N. Hamer, P. J. Over- j ton, W. IT. Wilson and H, L. Dic-ken-) ' ■son); Auckland, 71, including five, offi- j ccrs (Captain E. Harrowed, 1 A. O. Ailkeu-Coimell, S. A. Grant; J; 1 A. Collodgo and H. Richardson); Otago; 72, including live officers (Captain P. O; Rutherford, Lieutenants D. Stewart,_G| j H. Gann,'R. W. Wilkinson and S. Ci Caniton) ; Nelson, 40, including five'on , tieers (Lieutenants C. E. Browne. P. NT , Tait, AV. S. Whitely, Braithwaitc- and S. Joyce). Besides the above there aro ] 33 supplementary- men in camp. An additional batch of 17 men from < Nelson wore expected to arrive in camp i lato last night or early this morning- I From Napier and Gisborne eleven men ; are expected. ; i Temporary attachments of officers to ’ the companies have been made as fol-j ' lows ; —Auckland—Captain E. Harro- '• well. Lieutenants A. D. Aitlcen-Oonnelli I SL A. Grant, J. A. Gollodgo and H.i j Richardson. Wellington—Captain G. i R. John stem. Lieutenants J. Drury, AV. 1 G. Forsythe, E. AV. L’Estrange, H. ' Cameron and P. T. Emerson. ~ Can ter-j 1 .bury—Captain H. D. Coutts, Lieuten- 1 ants J. N. Hamer, P. J. Overton,’ W. 1 H. Wilson and H. L. Dickenson. Otago’ 1 —Captain p. C. Rutherford, Lieuten- 1 ; >.nts D. Stewart. G. H. Gaiie, R. W.; 1 AVilkinson and S. C. Caniton. Nelson: r —Lieutenahls C. E. Browne, P. TL; .( Tait, AA". E. Avhitelcy, Braithwaite and 1 c S. Joyce. Lieutenant Forsythe is only r attached to ,the AVellington company for i instruction. t

There Mere over fifty applications from various parts of Hawke’s Bay for the five positions offered: to men from this district for tho Seventh Contingent (says the Napier ‘‘Herald”), consequent on the increase of tho total number of the contingent from 300 to 000. Tho men wore medically examined hy Surgeon-Captain Locking, and wont, through Choir riding tests under Ala,jor Chicken and Captain Saucltihann, tho final ballot resulting in the' selection of the_ following five : —H. C. Christenson, Kaikora. North: W. Falvev, Napier; Ernest W. Alevntt, Tonloana; J. P. McKay, Hawke’s Bay; F. W. 'Smith, Hawke’s Bay. The men arrived by tho express last night.