THE BOER WAR.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 8685, 2 December 1899, Page 3

THE BOER WAR.

BATTLE OF MODDER RIVER.

LIST OF BRITISH CASUALTIES.

LORD METHUEN SLICHTLY WOUNDED.

CHANGE IN BULLER'S PLANS,

Eleotrio Telegraph-Copyright-UniteS Press Association. (Received Dec. 2, 9.5 a.m.) London, Dec. 1. No official details of the Battle of Modder River have yet reached the War Office. Two casualty messages have been received. The second announced that Lord Methuen had received a slight flesh wound in the thigh. The news caused a great sensation in London. The War Office has intimated that Lord Methuen is likely to be well in a few days. The list of casualties shows that Lieut. - Colonel H. P. Northcote, of the Leicester Regiment, a member of Lord Methuen's staff; Major Horace R. Stopford, Captain Sydney Earle, of the Coldstream Guards, and Lieutenant Long were killed. Nineteen officers were wounded, including Major Henry Earle, of the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, a brother of Captain Sydney Earle, of the Coldstreams.

Major Count Gleichen, of the Grenadier Guards, was severely wounded. The Hon. Edward Lygon, brother of the . Earl of Beauchamp, Governor of New South Wales, was slightly wounded. The fewness of the casualties on the side of the British suggests that the battle was fought at long range. It is believed the shrapnel and Lyddite did much execution among the enemy, and to a large extent led to their retreat. Communication is complete by railway and telegraph from Capetown to Modder River, a distance of 623 miles. The wounding of the Hon. Robert Lygoo, another brother of Lord Beauchamp, at the Battle of Belmont, is confirmed. The reinforcements being sent to South Africa are the result of the dislocation of plans caused by'the isolated movements of troops. The original plan of a general concerted advance has gone to pieces and been abandoned. Lord Wolseley confirms the statement .that ft second Army Corps is to be despatched. The second division of this Corps leaves within a week. (Received Deo. 2, 11.35 a.m.) The steamer Karanii has left for the Cape with forty million cartridges, and eleventhousandshrapnelandLydditeshells. j

Capetown, Deo. 1. Several Boera, with enormous red crosses on their eleeves, have been brought to the o rau ue river. The men acted as gunners at Gfasspan, the red cross being n fresli ruse to deceive the British soldiers. The prisoners' estimate that they lost 140 killed at Belmont and 400 at Grasspan. (Received Dec. 2, 11.25 a.m.) . Thousands of people gathered in the streets of Capetown and frantically cheered the Medic's troops as they marched to tha barracks at Maillaud. The proposed public reception to ibe colonials has been abandoned. Sydney, Dec. 1. The Governor has received a cable message stating that another of his brothers ■was wounded in the battle at Modder . river.