LATEST TRANSVAAL.
LIEUT. ':NEUMEYER CAPTURED.
SETTLE'S COLUMN MAKES A BIG
CAPTURE.
s?ro» Association.— Telegraph— OopyxigtM SYDNEY, November 26. Trooper Ellis, New South Wales Lancers, died on the Har.ech Castle.
Received, November 27th, 0.40 a.m,
LONDON, November 26,
Two Boers captured Lieutenant Neumeyer, commanding tho Orange Police at Smithfleld, while driving unarmed towards Aliwell North, handcuffed, and then shot in tho back and head, robbed and threw his body into the Spruit.
Settle's column captured in the southwestern district of the Orange Colony 12 prisoners, 200 horses and 10,000 sheep. Tho Boer attack on Dewetsdorp has been repulsed.
Lieutenant Paxton, with four men, mistaking the road from Tbubanchu to Ladybrand rode straight into a Boer position.
Paton had three killed and the other wounded.
The European Press, commenting on Kruger's visit, says it is hopeless for him to expect anything beyond sympathy. The British press admits Rousseau's scrupulous correctness of the procedure of Kruger's visit aiid the abstention of the crowds to any exhibition of unfriendliness towards Great Britain, and the moderation of the French Press.
PARIS, November 26.
In order to evoke enthusiasm Kruger's suite had to display his granddaughters in Paris, and. keep his great-grandchild at the window for hours together waving the Doer flag.
NEW ZEALANL'S CONTINGENT.
WELLINGTON, November 26.
There will be twelve Wellington representatives in the Commonwealth Contingent instead of eleven as previously proposed.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 15000, 27 November 1900, Page 3
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