THE TRANSVAAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 3625, 23 August 1901, Page 2

THE TRANSVAAL.

MENTIONED IN DESPATHES. NO INTERVENTION. United Press Association— Per Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Received 9.5 a.m., August 22nd. LONDON, August 21. Lord Kitchener mentions the following for conspicuous bravery : —Western Australians—Captain Campbell, Lieutenants Bell, Reid, Forrest, and Brown; Queenslanders—Lieutenants Rees and Cameron ; South Australian—Captain Langley; New Zealanders—Captain Bauchop and Surgeon O'Neill; Victorian —Veterinary-Lieutenant Sherlock. After a, meeting of Boer leaders in Belgium to discuss Lord Kitchener's proclamation, Mr Leyds admitted the improbability of European intervention. A KRUGER STORY. Received 10.25 a.m.. August 22nd. LONDON, August 21. The " Daily Express" states that Mr Kruger's agents made a secret bid for a new French cannon at a military exhibition -at Earl's Court, London. HONOURS FOR COLONIALS. Received 10.27 p.m., August 22nd. LONDON, August 22. Lord Kitchener mentions for conspicuous

services—New Zealand, Fourth Contingent,, Farrier-Sergeant Hardman; South Australian Bushmen, Sergeant Grewar; Tasmanian Bushmen, Trooper Brownell; Queeasland Bushmen, Sergeant Smith, Corporal King, Privates Marniont and Kells; Queensland Infantry, Sergeant Doyle; Victorian Imperial Bushmen, Quarter-master Sergeant Johnstone, Corporal Hewitt, and Trooper Hipland; Victorian Rifles, Private Wilson. The number of Boers still in the field I is officially estimated at 11,000. LORD KITCHENER'S PROCLAMATION. Received 1.30 a.m., August 23rd. LONDON, August 22* Hertzog and Malam, in widely separated places in Cape Colony, deprived the-Eng-lish lieutenants, who were bearers of Lord Kitchener's Proclamation, of their horses and personal property. Malam even threatened one bearer with death. RETURNED TROOPERS. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, August 22. The- following troopers returned by the Waihora this morning : —Fifth Contingent—Sergeant De Latour and Trooper F. R. Petrall; Fourth Contingent—Troopers A. C. Suttie, Q. Scown, G. Findlater, J. Orr; Seventh Contingent Trooper Sharpliss ; South. African Light Horse—Corporal Griffiths, Troopers Dashwood, Sutherland- Watson, Powdrell, and Chapman ; Kitchener's- Fighting Scouts —Troopers Hamilton and Juriss.