THE BOER WAR.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4870, 3 July 1901, Page 1

THE BOER WAR.

London, June 28. Majors-general Campbell and Harley's columns, between Bethlehem and Hanismith, captured 13 waggons, a quantity of grain and salt, and many horses and sheep. They also brought 250 women and children into the refugee camps. Sir Frederick Carrington, at a banquet in London, said that the Australians and Canadians under him in South Africa were the nicest (? finest) men that he had ever commanded. Colonel Sir Henry Rawlinson visited a difficult part of the- Magaliesberg* Hills district. He found ihe Boers ploughing and sowing, in the belief that the war had ended in their favor. They were placed under arrest. In connection with Sir Blundell Maple's recent complaints of the worthlessness of the Hungarian horses purchased by the War Office, the Buda Pesth newspaper ' Pester Lloyd ' says that the British Government were defrauded to the extent of £275,000. The contractors supplied blind hossea and animals unfit for work. June lOi , Lord Kitchener reports that the Boers attacked two block-houses on foe Dslagoa Bay railway line, near Bugspruitr, on the night of the 26th June. An armored train dispersed the attacking party, who left four doad on the field, and oarried away 20 casualties. Twenty-three horses and Borne carts were captured. The British had four men slightly wounded.

Cornet Lepliez and 44 men have surrendered at Pieteraburg.