The Transvaal.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 19, 14 July 1900, Page 3

The Transvaal.

London July 10. P. J. Blignant (Slitte Secretary), R. Diokeon (State Attorney), and G. V«.nfcondeu (senior member of the Exocutiye Council), Free State, have surrendered to the British at Heilbron It is estimated in Pretoria thtfc General Louis Botha's and De Wei'o commandoes number 11,000.

July 11. W. MoPhe«, a West Australian tKuhman, died at Bulvrajo. Major-Generale Clements and Pftget, aftartvro dajs's hard fighting, capoured Bethlehtm, reeoTerir.g th« gun lo«t at Stovmberg. There were 47 casualties. De Wetesoapfcd into rugged oountrj, pr»Y»nting pursuit. Major General Rundle has occupied Biddalphsberg.

Capetown July 10, President Stflyn, Commandant Christian Da Wo*, and IJOOO Bosra, have rotreatsd to Foariesburg, 25 miles south of Bethlehem. The prisoners of the Irish Yeomanry and r>erby»hira Mmtia thrust across tho Natal border wora nearly starved. Thjsii' uniforms had been stolen and th«y wore wearing the filthy clothes o* the Boerfi >

Julj 11/ Commandant Duplessis has been killed near Eustenburg. The Boers are demonstrating a force along th» Pretoria -Johannesburg Railway. Troeps guarding the line have boen reinforced. Al) tha -members of Steyn's Gorern m«nt have surrendered, and are pressing upon Steyn th« nselessntßs of continuing the struggle. De Wot has svrora solfttanly to himself not to surrender.

Pabis, July 11. M. Delcasse, Minister for Foreign Affairs, formally received the Boer peaoe dolegatea, who recently arrived from America. The Paris Municipal Council banqugtied tho d«l«gates.

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