THE TRANSVAAL WAR.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4305, 14 March 1901, Page 7

THE TRANSVAAL WAR.

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N IS(^*JTlai tons for peace. j LONDON, Mutch 12. j The re-nit iii' the negotiations between ' I Ami Kitchener and General Botha are hopefully awaited at Pretoria. It is thought that Botha will surrender, even; if l>e Wet declines to do so. j ißeceived March 1-1, 0.21 a.in.) I LONDON, March 13. A conference of Boor commanders will be held on. Friday to discuss the posit iou. AlOiougli, (here are eight separate guerilla. 'oaKiiandocs in tho Orange River Colony, civil administration. Is largely replacing the. military. ■ DK WFT’F LATEST LOCATION. ißeceived March ID, 5 p.m.) LONDON. March 12. ' I t is officially announced that General 0 Do Wet is north of Bnuidfort. i | Brandfort is on the main lino of railway, forty miles north of iP.ooinl'on- ' tcin.J < RAIDING THE PAILWAY. J LONDON, March 13. \ Fifty of Commandant Trichart’s Boers, , hoping to capture provisions, under- (j ini net! tho railway lino at .Heidelberg, ( forty miles south-east of Johannesburg, , and shot some Kaffirs in an adjoining ■, kraal, to, proVenfc them from divulging ! , their plans. When a trolly arrived a : , charge of dynamite placed under the lino ( exploded. Threo British were hilled and , two injured. • CAPTURE OF REMOUNTS. ] LONDON, March 12. i Colonel Pxlcl.jur has cleared tho country ( Irom Orange Rfvcr tc Bloemfontein, cap- x taring thirty-threo Boors and three thou- c sand remounts. I GENERAL COLVILE. ' HIS MILITARY OFFENCES. ' LONDON. March 12. 8 In Hie Mouse of Commons, the Right J Hon. W. St. J. Brodrick, Secretary of ■Stnltv for War, explained that Lord c Roberts had gravelly censured Licutcn- I :uit-th>iieral Colvilo. Ho was blamed " for not attempting to save tho guns lost'" at Sauna’s Post, and for subsequently i neglecting to help Colonel Spragge and s , tho Irish Yeomanry near Lind ley. i v Sir Henry Colvile’s friends arc widely;" blamed for raising tho debate establish-'" ing Lis iucompetency. Sir Henry was " reinstated in his command at Gibraltar without Lord Roberts’s knowledge. v (Received March 14, 0.24 a.m.) LONDON, Mar oh PL 1 Tim House of Commons, by a majority \ ol 2G2 votes to 148. refused to grant an inquiry into General Colvile’s case. j? LORD KITCHENER’S ESCAPES. LONDON, March 12. The Boers recently surprised a squad- -j. TCiii ot the 18th Hussars which was es- Y corting Lord Kitchelner. All tho Hus-, ■siira escaped excepting fifteen veterans, who wore captured. Particulars are published of Lord Kit- * choner’s escape at Balmoral on ■ 23rd c January. Referring to this incident, an c officer relates that a pilot engine had - go no over tho lino and reported all clear. V Lord Kitchener ordered two heavilyladen trucks attached to a pilot engine L to rc-tost tho suspected spot. When 1 they reached tho spot the engine and 01 trucks wore blown to pieces. A hundred " concealed Boers rushed to the shattered u trucks, but found the mangled remains of tho engine-driver only. , " MISCELLANEOUS. \ LONDON, March 12. I A thousand Australians reached Cape- ' (own yesterday. They will proceed ,to the front immediately after tho arrival V of their horses. ■ ? The Boers in tho Eastern Transvaal " aro short of ammunition, and are burying b their artiilery. . 0 The railway from Pretoria to Delagoa J Bay is now clear of Boers. ! c (Received March 13, 10.43 p.m.) | c LOjNDON, March 13. H Private Palmer, of (South Australia,'" has succumbed to enteric at Pretoria. I . OTTAWA, March 13. |“ The Canadian House of Commons by. 1. an overwhelming majority rejected a re- 1 ., (solution, opposing the enlistment of re-j emits for Baden-PowelTs South African! Constabulary. c c THE SEVENTH CONTINGENT. k —a A largo troop went through mounted ? parade on the Lyell sands yesterday, " including men of the. Canterbury, Nel- ? son and Otago companies. A party of aomo fifty men went out to Polhill [ Gully range for shooting tests in the 1 morning. a The .strength of tho camp, inclusive L of officers, is now as follows; —Welling, ton section, 96; Auckland, 71; Nelson, 11 57; Canterbury, 74; Otago, 72; supple- . men!ary, 82; total, 452. ,