TRANSVAAL.

Wanganui Chronicle, 25 July 1901, Page 3

TRANSVAAL.

Press Association —Telegraph—Copyright.

LONDON, July 23,

Tho Boers for two days made determined attacks on Aberdeen. The arrival of a detachment of Australians and a 15----pounder caused them to disperse. F. Eloff, Kruger's son-in-law, has telegraphed the ex-President that Mrs Kruger's end was peaceful and painless. Her dying message to her husband was that he must place his firm trust hi God. In connection with the captured correspondence between Reitz and Steyn, and Reitz's reference to the final step, one letter is believed to foreshadow an application for an armistice by the Transvaal leaders, with the avowed intention of consulting the burghers and hoping to secure a Battlement which wlil preserve Boer nationality. The Hon. J. Chamberlain has stated that the wanton destruction at Murraysburgh and elsewhere by Commandant Scheejer's raiders was mere brigandage. Lord Milner has received the freedom of London.

General Baden-Powell is seriously ill owing to prolonged strain, and the doctors have orderd an entire cessation of work for three months.

CAPETOWN, July 23

The Cape Dutch are profoundly impressed at the revelation of the hopelessness of the position. They consider Steyn's arguments baseless.