The Transvaal,

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 18, 12 July 1900, Page 3

The Transvaal,

London July 8. President Steyn has fled from Bethlehem to the mountains. Eight hundred prisoners, consisting of men from the Imperial Yeomanry and Derbyshire Militia, ■were put over the borders, into Natal out of the Free State by Mr Reifcz. There are no officers among them. The railway from Pretoria to Natal has been restored. Small raiding parties are interfering with General Buller's communications near Standerton.

July 9. Lieutenant D'-Arcy Chaytor, of the New Zealand First Contingent, In a letter to the Times, protests against Mr Burdett-Coutts' alarming views in reference to the hospitals, which, he says, are misleading and cruel. He and 21 other Now Zealanders were cured of entpric fever at Bloemfontein. Everything humanly possible is dono for the sick. The Ist Brigade of Mounted Infantry, comprising Australians and Canadians, have been entirely re-equipped. Generals Mahon and Hutton d. feitod 3000 Boers who were trying to injure the railway at Bookersprait. There were 33 British casutlties daring the engagement. The garrison repulsed a resolute Boor attempt to capture Rustenberg. Portugal is tacitly allowing many burgheis with large herds to trek to Gaz.iland. Several members of the Dutch Ambulance at Pretoria were confieted of carrying information and ammunition to the Boers and sent to Capetown. The Hon. Sir W. F. Heby Hutahiion, Governor of Natal, is conferring with Sir A. Milner, relative to Natal retaining Wakkerstroora and Vryheid districts in the Transvaal, as compensation for losses by the war.

July 10. The Government will appoint a small commission of experts to investigate locally the question of laud grants to soldiors in South Africa.

Capetown July 9. Africanders at the Cape are organising a company "With a capita! of £200,000 to boycott British trade. Lord Roberts ha,s refused to allow inaiersb to ro-eiitcr before September at the earliest.

Melbourne, July 9. The captain of a steamer from the Cape reports thai; enormous staeka of produce are lying at South African ports awaiting carriage. No provision for protecting the produce is available. Some vessels have been waiting for months to discbarge. He strongly advises exporters not to risk sending vessels to the Cape. Sir Alf Led Milner has cabled that over 80 Victorian and New South Wales invalided soldiers sailed for Australia on the 4th July.

Wellington, July 10. The Premier has received a cable from Mr Pilcner, New Zealand Gwernrnect agent at Capetown, giving particulars of the men in the hospital at Capetown. The following South Canterbury men are mentioned : 617, Wilson {Lance-' -orpcal C. A, Wilson, son rt Mr 0. Wilson, Waimate) ; G73, Mclntosh (Private A. Mclntosh, flonof Mr?Molntosh) Timaru ; 417, Sing, (Private J. T>. Kinff, nsxfc-of-tin Mr James King, Livery B tables, Timaru) ; 307, Freeman (Private T. M. Freeman, son of Mrs Freeman, W dimate). "All are doing well, and the mojority will be fit to xeturn by the Waimate,