RAIDING NEAR JOHANNESBURG.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 11943, 17 January 1901, Page 5

RAIDING NEAR JOHANNESBURG.

LONDON, January 15. The Boers are raiding farms five miles from Johannesburg. RAIDERS AT VRYHEID. A determined attack was made on a cmivnv when proceeding to Vryhoid, at Blood River. The attack was repulsed. Two hundred raiders at Damslaagte attacked a convoy, and were repulsed. A KAFFIR'S TREACHERY. A Kaffir led the Boers to the only entrance in the wire entanglements around Zuarfnntein. Nine hundred suspects have been arrested at Vryburg and removed to Kimberley. i RUSTENBURG PREPARED. Rustenhurg has been reprovisioned, after the garrison had been on short rations for a month. IN A PITIABLE PLIGHT. Many destitute foreigners from the Transvaal are appealing to the Durban police for food and shelter. Their respective consuls decline to help them. TIME-EXPIRED SOLDIERS DETAINED. (Received Jan. 16, at G. 42 a.m.) Fifteen thousand time-expired British soldiers are detained in India owing to the suspension of sending out reliefs, the latter having been sent to South Africa. LORD ROBERTS IN LONDON. Lord Roberts has indefinitely postponed his reception and acceptance of the freedom of the City of London, owing to the present unhappy circumstances surrounding the war in South Africa.