THE BOER WAR.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 12036, 7 May 1901, Page 5

THE BOER WAR.

A BATTLE IMMINENT.

SURROUNDING DE LA REY

CLEARING THE COUNTKY

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.

MORE BOER REVERSES. LONDON, May 5. (Received 'May b, at 9.6 a.m.) Lord Kitchenerrcporis that an additional 10 Boers have been killed, three wounded, and 13 surrendered, whilst 93 Boers, 286.000 ciiitridgcs, 100 wnggnns with teams, and 2070 horses have beta captured.

SURROUNDING DE LA RKY

A BATTLE IMMINENT

LONDON, May 6. (Received May 7, at 0.30 a.m. De lu Rev commands 5000 Uners at ■Hiirlebeestefimtein. fiennrals llabington and Mcthiien and Major Sir Henry Riiwiinsiiu are hying to surround the liner leader. A Iwtlle is imminent.

CI.KARIXf! THK COUNTRY

The columns in the northern dislrid-s -are executing a wide movement with the object of cleming the bush veldt, and fieni'val Rimdle is performing a similar movem-nt in the norlh-east of the Orange .River Colony. ' SIR A. MILXKIL Sir A. Milner.'at Capetown, tinted that Jm cm hi) easily spared a two months' holiday. 'pay op coxtinoents. SYDNEY, May 6. (Received May 6, at 9.55 a.m.) The (lovernmi'iit have decided that the pay of the first and second contingents sent to South Africa be 4s 6d a day. but those who have received Is 2d a day Imperial pay while at tin. , front will have that limount deducted. The matter has long ■been in dispute, the men claiming 4s 6d over and nbuvc I heir Imperial pay.

RCTI'RXKD TO ACTIVE SERVIGK. (Per UxiTF.n Press .Association - .) WKLUNfiTOX, May 6. Tin; Pivaiier has been advised that Lieutenant I-Joatlier. late of (lie. second ran(infill, is back again in South Africa, having volunteered for further service. RKCRUIII'IN'O IX NEW ZEALAND. CIIRISTCHURCn, May 6. Captain Hughes has received a cable from

tlie military authorities at Capetown stating (hat Lord Kitchener is arranging for tin , phages of men recruited by Captuin Hughes fnr Hnibant's Horse, and instructing liim to see the (juvorour upon the matter. As a result,- Captain Hughes left for Wellington this evening.

Sergeant-major Gillospie, a well-known old lilenhemi boy, who passed through Duuedin on his way home n few months aj;o as an invalid from South Africa after goinjj through tlio siege of Kimhorley, and wss entertained at n. ,luneh at the (irand Hotel with other New Zealand invalided soldiers by ihe Patriotic Committee, ii back in Uip fiKliting line with .1 volunteer troop. Writing from Wiltoputs (near Kimborloy) ho says that on returning to Kimborley he ftartal work at the newepaper office in which he was formerly engaged, but soldiering upsnli" a ninn. and officn woi!; was simply unbearable, After three wjwks of it ho applied for a position in his old corps (tho Kiinherley Light Horae), but it was hejioged at Z'.'erusl, and his letter did not ri-iieh tho colonel. lie then appliwl for and fccunsl i\ coinmifsiou in the Scott'e (luard?, iv corps formed by Major (now Colonel) .Sontl, of De Hcors «ni|i!oyecs. Ho is at present in charge of 70 men and a lieutenant, and recently fou<jM an cHgnKcmmH with a fore© under De Wet, the JSoers being driven olf.

Tl:c friends of Trnoprt- .). C. Maclean, of Diinrdin, will be pleased to learn that lie has received promotion, and is now acting as corporal in the fourth rontinpmt. A letter which was received from liim by the lest mail fbows Hint lie irn» present at. and uiol; jiart in, the engagement near Ventersdorp toward* the end of March, in which (leueral Partington and Colonel Slnpleton inflicted a licavy defeat upon De la Roy and made important ca])tureß of guns, ammunition, Mid prisoner*. Regarding this encounter with the enemy, Corporal Maclean write?: "We moved o.T at 3 a.m. It was iu.«l daybreak when we got on to the Boers first, and, after exchanging a lot of shell fire, we gnllnpcd out after them with our troop in the lend. We chased them for about 13 iniios, firing ?l them from oif our horses. We were the first to catch up on their convoy. Lieutenant Jickell look us right part on to the left flank. By this move we skipped the Boors getting away with their (rmf». and the rert of our men, on the right of us, with the Australian Bushmen, captured nine of their big guns, also (lie Urier convoy and 140 prisoners.' . Prior to (his Corporal Maclean, who had been invflidrxl at Johannesburg, was attached for a. lew days to the Scottish Fusiliers at ]'otch"f?!room, after which he was sent on to wiiere lie ptayed with some of the Imperial Yeomanry for about is week, and thereafter ho was sent with a convoy to Naouwpoort, where lie rpjomerl his regjmenl. He reports himself .15 now bring in ihc very )x>st of health, but he regretfully describes "Pirate," the horse which wis presented to him before his dciprturo by-(ho Pirates Football Club, as fairly knocked out and not fit to ride again.