THE TRANSVAAL WAR.
REASSURING NEWS FROM LADISMITH. THE GARRISON ABLE TO HOLD OUT. DEATH OF A GOLF CHAMPION. THE BOER LOSSES AT KOODOOSBERG. THE ENGAGEMENT AT VAALKRANTZ. . • A BRAVE BOER, United Press Association— By Eleotria I Telegraph— Copy ngxi». (Received Feb. 13. 9.5 a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 12. The garrison at Ladysmith has sent a reassuring., heliogram to the effect that it is able to hold out for weeks yet. Lieutenant P. G. Tait, of the Black Watch, a well-known golfer, was amongst the killed at Koodoosberg. It is estimated that the Boers lost one hundred there. At Vaalkrantz the British were about to seize a Maxim-Vickers gun when Vrtjoen, a Boer officer, with a team of horses, splendidly rescued the weapon almost under the eyes of the British and amid lyddite shelling; • . . • -..-'■■.. ''•The British Government Las- purchased five thousand horses in Hungary.. -...-'■;.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 6717, 13 February 1900, Page 3
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142THE TRANSVAAL WAR. Star (Christchurch), Issue 6717, 13 February 1900, Page 3
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