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COLONIALS JOINING THE TRAN3VAAfi CONSTABULARY. CONSTERNATION OVER THE RREAKING UP OF A GANtf OF CORRUPT OFFICIALS. TWO RASCALLY CANADIANS SHARPLY PUNISHED. STEYN SERIOUSLY ILL. WAKREN GOING HOME. BULLER OCCUPIES AMERSPOORT: BOERS SHUW NO "FIUHIV PRETORIA, Aug. S, Received 9-b, 7 p.m. A force of 5000 Transvaal Constabulary is forming, and many colonials are joiaiog it. Boer ageDt3 at D«l<*go» B^y are panic•tricken at the diamUeal of Portugueae Customs officials. Capetown, Aug. 8. , Received 9th, 7 p.m. Two of the Canadian mounted men have bean sentenced to ten years' imprisonment for commandeering Boer arms with forged orders and selling them to other Boers. Steyn is seriously ill. Boers captured two of Carrington's scouts disguised as Transvaal burghers. London, Aug. 8. Received 9tb, 9.45 p.m. Bir Charles Warren is returning to England after pacifying the districts north of Orange River. Received 9th, 10.45 p.m. General Buller occupied Amerapoort on Tuesday, S3 British being wounded. Botha's opposition is half-hearted.
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Southland Times, 10 August 1900, Page 2
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