The Transvaal.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 28, 4 August 1900, Page 3

The Transvaal.

London, July 81. Prinsloo, the Boer commander, applied for four days' armistice to negotiate. General Hunter replied that he would only accept an unconditional sui render, otherwise hostilities would continue. Later, Prinsloo offered that his men should surrender with thoir arms, but should retain their horse 3 and saddles and other property, and that they should then be allowed to return to their homes. The oiler was communicated to Lord Roberts, and he insisted upon the surrender of everything. The total surrender of Prinsloo followed.

August 1. Prinsloo, Villiers, Crowther and ! 986 men chiefly belonging fco the j Fricksburg and Ladybrand Commandos, with 1482 horses, 915 rifles, Krupp 9-pounder, and 50 waggons surrendered to Ma/jor-G-eneral Hunter. The scene recalled the surrender of Gronje's laager. The Boe«*s, laden with blankets and camp utensils, rode sullenly between two long lines of troops and thrc« r down thair rifles. Lord Roberts ordered the resumption of hostilities, warning Prinsloo personally that he was responsible for tin- delivery of ovary gun. Some surrendered to General Macdonald at Nauwpoorts Nek. Eonl KifccheneY has gon r e to Krugersdorp, to organise th- 1 j olii? ' of Buscenburg. j Sir M. Hick3- Beach, in the Houso | of Commons, staged that the prbsenc cost of the war amounted to £-12,000,000. Lord .Roberts reports that 1200 more boers surrendered to General Hunter, who expects his total to reach 4000. Amongst those who surrenderee! are Commandants Roux, Fontenel, Deploy, Potgieter, Joubert, and Brice. - General Hamilton collected 1200 rifles, 800 pjmes, and aa Armstrong gun. Throe Uomniandants also suintended to him. Olivier, wit 1 ! five guns, broke away in the direction of Harnsmith. The Boers in the Middleburg district are longing to surrender, but are only deterred by the menaces of irreconciiables, and Kruger's extraordinary fabrications regarding tho British disasters. Mr Wyndham stated that the health of the prisoners at Nooitgedachc is good. The food is insuSUcieat, being meat once weekly, and that salt.

August 2. Kruger is trying to concentrate his coruoiandos at Lydenburg, which is telegraphically connected with Nels&pruiu. Many, deaf to all entreaties, are surrendering at the British camps-

Maohadorp has been evacuated. Albany, August 2. The New Zealanders aboard fche Persic are Lauoe-Oorporal Wilson, Privates Fahey and Shand.

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