THE TRANSVAAL WAR.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4304, 13 March 1901, Page 7

THE TRANSVAAL WAR.

CABLE NEWS, i

UNITED TRESS ASSOCIATION.—BY ELECTRIC TBLEOE ATH. —COPYRIGHT.

.MOVEMENTS OF GENERAL DE WET. THE HAIDER MARCHING NORTH. LONDON, March 11. General. Do Wet and Commandant Froncmau, with four hundred men. are advancing northward at the rate of twenty-five miles a day. Do Wet has declared that ho saw ids brother Piet—who recently made overtures to the Afrikander Rond loaders re(l nesting t hern to use their efforts in favour of peace—and a number of former burghers enrolled at Rrandfort and Kroonstad (n aet defensively against tho Doers. (Received March 13, 0.13 a .in.') LONDON, March 12. Piet J)e Wot, brother of General Christian Do Wet, recently expressed his intention of pleading with the latter to .surrender. General Do Wet has, however, refused to see his brother. A number cf former burghers of Kroonstad and Brandforfc have had to bo enrolled to defend themselves against tho Boers. “ NO CHANCE LEFT.’' (Roeoiycd March 13, 0.19 a.m.) LONDON, March 12. Mr Stcyn, speaking at Philippolis, af. ter tho failure of tho Cape invasion, admitted that there was no chance left of regaining tho country. A BOER SUPPLY BASE. (Received March 13. 0.13 a.m.) LONDON, March 12. The Boers have collected largo quantities of '.applies at Dewetsdorp, in Orange River Colony, south-east of Bloemfontein. REBELS SENTENCED TO DEATH. LONDON, March 11. Two rebels have been sentenced to death for attacking a train at Taaibcschfontein. Others received sentences of imprisonment. CANADIAN TROOPERS. LONDON, March 11. Twelve hundred Canadians for MajorGeneral Badon-Powell’s South African Constabulary, sailed from Halifax, Nova Scotia., on the 29th ult. AUSTRALIAN CONTINGENTS. SYDNEY. March 12. The transports Custodian and Maplemore, with half the draft contingent, aro expected to get away on Saturday, and 11 io Banco and British Princess, with tho balance, on the following Tuesday. THE NEW ZEALAND TRANSPORT. (Received March 13, 1.14 4a.m.) SYDNEY. March 12. Tho Gulf of Taranto sails for Now Zealand on the 26th inst. to transport (ho Seventh Contingent to the Cape. MISCELLANEOUS. BRISBANE, March 12. In reply to an inquiry, Lord Kitchener has asked the Government to'send as many additional horses Ijy the troopships as possible. Small, stout animals are wanted. HOBART, March 12. Tho Premier is calling for offers of eats, in parcels of not less than fifty tons, to forward to South Africa cm behalf of the Imperial Government. LONDON, March 11. Tho British have ve-occupicd Marcusherg, on the Klerksdorp railway, twenty miles west of Johannesburg. Tho last nows of the First, Second and 'Third New Zealand Contingents which had, up to Januarydast, been opera! ing with Major-General Paget’s column r.n the Delagoa Bay Railway, was that they had reached Naauwpoort. This Las been interpreted to mean that they had been withdrawn to the place of that name in Cape Colony, near*the Orange River, to assist in “checking Do Wet.” ' This is most improbable, for tho distance to be traversed is enormous. Our men are, there is little doubt, still in tho Transvaal, the “Naauwpoort” ■referred, to being in all probability a place hearing that name twenty-one miles north-east of Johannesburg. SEVENTH "CONTINGENT. A mounted parade and foot drill were held at the Newtown Park camp yesterday, after which the mounted men were, taken out on the sandhills at Miramar* and exercised under Liout. Davies. Uniforms were served out to the members of the Wellington and Nelson sections yesterday. So far these are the best fitting consignment that has been received. The arrivals in camp yesterday comprised seventeen men from Nelson, and ten from Gisborne and Napier. The strength of the camp, inclusive of officers, is now as follows :—Auckland, 71: Wellington, 93; Nelson, 57; Canterbury, 74; Otago, 73; supplementary, 80; total, 447. PRESS ASSOCIATION. NAPIER, March 12. Great difficulty has been experienced in getting remounts in Hawke’s Bay. Tho original order of twenty had to bo reduced to.twelve. These, which are a splendid lot, were sent to Wellington today. INVERCARGILL. March 12. A detachment of fourteen Southlanders left for the North to-day to join the Seventh Contingent.