THE TRANSVAAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 11702, 11 March 1902, Page 3

THE TRANSVAAL.

SENDING PRISONERS TO INDIA. GUABREL AMONG THE BOERS jSST THE BERMUDAS. United Press Association —P«r Electric Telegraph-^Copyright. Beceived 9.12 a-m.., March 10th. LONDON, March 9. The Bavarian has sailed frpjn Durban for India with a thousand prisoners. The Natal Assembly strongly favours compulsory military service- \ Thirteen-hundred stampers are working on the Band, but native labour is scarce. A further batch of Boer prisoners at Hawkins Island, Bermudas, as a protest against the continuance of the war, took the oath of allegiance to Britain. A i«rty of other prisoners thereupon attempted to drown them in Great Sound, but the t ul>tary guard frustrated the attempt, and the assaflasts were imprisoned.

THE CAPTURES BY RIMINGTON. BOTHA AND HIS MEN IN LAAGER. Received" 10.56 p.m., Alarch 10th. LONDON, March 10. Colonel Rimington found important Boer correspondence, large quantities of wheat, 600 pom pom shells and a- mill complete. He collected 17 wounded Boers, and a number of waggons. Fifty other Boershave been brought to Bloemfontein. Botha with 800 men is laagered at his farm, 25 miles north-east of Vryheid. A proclamation issued at Pretoria amends the law relating to registration of deeds and provides for the resumption and transfer of property on April 15th. Forty-five progressive Cape Commoners have signed the petition for suspension of the Constitution and six others are expected to sign it. DECLARATION BY MR KRUGER. THE FINDER OF DE WET'S CAVE. Received 1.10 a.m., March 11th. LONDON, March 10. Mr Kroger declares that the Kuvper correspondence has produced no impression on the Boer Generals. Ross, of the Canadian Scouts, under Rimington found De Wet's cave. Seven hundred men, who are employed at the railway workshops at Durban strock for an extra Is per day. Ihe Government refused to concede the demand.

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WELLINGTON, March 10. Colonel Porter cables to the Premier that all the wounded of the Seventh Contingent are doing well. The Governor has received cable advice from the Casualtv Department at Capetown, staonp that the following casualties are reported for the first time in the half-yearly leturnr—At Botha's Pass, on December 27th. the following were severely bounded 4453 Shoeinsr-smith T. W. Allen; 4282 W Robertson : at Paste's Drift, on September 27th, 3248 R. Seth.

A LETTER FROM STR GORDON SPRIGG. , ,„ DUNEDIN, March 10. At the banquet to-night, the Premier read the following letter from Sir Gordon Sprigg, Premier of Cape Colony : — My friendi here are so delighted with the firm noble stand vou have taken up on behalf of South Africa, and we shall never forget the help that has been rendered bythe men of New Zealand in the field That help is still being continued, and 1 tninfc that the Boers are at" last beginning to wnderstand that the sons of : JBntaiii throughout the world are determined? that the supremacy of their country and Sow reign shall be maintained." . ■-'. The Governor entertained the officers i* the Ninth Contingent at dinner on Saturdav night, at the Fernhill Club. The South Island section of the JSintn Contingent paraded mounted through two af the principal streets of the city to-day. The men look a good, even, serviceable lot, but manv of the horses are little bet : ter than ponies, and look indifferently. The ladies' committee to-day handed over £6O lis, which was collected by them to nrovide instruments for the band of the Contingent.