GENERAL CLEMENT'S REVERSE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 11925, 25 December 1900, Page 5

GENERAL CLEMENT'S REVERSE.

CASUALTIES KKAVT.ER THAN ANTICIPATED. LONDON*. December S3. The casualty list through General Clements's vpvi'vs" near Krnsjersdorp is lieavier than was at first anticipated. A large proportion of the -wounded are dangerously and severely hurl, c-ned.illy amoncst the Nnrthnmbsrknd Pnpilier?. the Yeomnnrv, 'Mounted Cnmcron Highlanders, and the Durban Lialit Tnfaui-rv.' SCOTS^reX OX THE RAND. The Scotsmen of the Rand have formed a corps to be known n? the Scottish Horse. The Marquis of Tullibardine commands. CASUALTIES TO COLONIALS. LONDON. December 23. Trooper A. J. Baker, of New Zealand, was severely wounded at Koehiucer. Gunner Drown, belonging to the New Zealand Artillery Corps, died from enteric at Lielitenlmrg.

Private Damrow, of Queensland, has died from enteric.

[Trooper Baker, n m»mb»t of the fourth continsent, comes from Wollinston. O'hore are four troopers named Brown in the fourth contingent, two in the fifth, and two in the list of reserves. Any one of these may be the gunner referred to.]

EETDRNIKG- IXVALTDED.

HOBART, DecDinTj'er 24.

The Pnpnntii's passengers include the Uew Zealand troopers iSutherlnnd, Raynor, and Collins.

MORE MEN FOR SOUTH AFRICA

(Pur United Fhkss Association-.)

WELLINGTON, December 24.

An important communication has been received by the Government from the Secretary of State, and in consequence Ministers have decided to retain our contingents in South Africa, until further orders. The Government have also decided to send drafts to the Cape to fill up vacancies in the contingents.

Mr H. C. Low. who returned from South Africa, by the Waiwera, and came on to Dunedin on Saturday toot, has been for the past 12 months in the Army Service. Corps. He went, to South Africa, five years aero, and when the war broke out took to the field. He has now returned home to recover from the effects of a bad attack of malarial fever. The Diamondfields Advertiser of November 19 reporU that, iust prior to his leaving he was presented with a handsome pipe by the personnel of the A.S.C.. as a token of their sood-

will and esteem. Lance-corporal Abbott, in a short and appropriate speech, expressed the company's appreciation of Mr Low's geniality and goodheartedness on oil occasions, and referred to what he had done, to msb (be time pass pleasantly to them at. Orange River by tho introduction of various kinds of snort, especially cricket. Mr Low, it will be remembered, was one of the founders of tho present Puncclin Cricket Club, and is a brother of Mr AY. A. Low, of Dunedin.