Second Edition. THE TRANSVAAL.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9945, 22 January 1900, Page 3

Second Edition. THE TRANSVAAL.

OENERAt LYTTELTON'S TROOPS. ENCOUNTER A HEAVY FIKJJ. BOER TRENCHES SHELLED AND GRASS FIRED. (By Electric Telegraph— Copyright.) (Per United Press Association.) Deceived January 22, at 8.50 a.m. DURBAN, January 21. A company of General Lyttelton's Mounted Rifles, with a balloon section, enconntercd a heaiy fire. The trenches koto shelled and the grass fired. CAPETOWN, January 21. Gcnoial French has occupied a new camp, eight miles ea«t of liiger&fonteiii. LONDON, Januaiy 21. Thp War Office notify that Victor Jones, of Queensland, was killed at Sunnyside. Arthur Jones, the Victorian, reported to havo been killed) is alive and well. Lady Duff, widow of the late Sir Robert Duff, at one time Governor of New South Wales, and a number of Anglo-! Colonial ladies are shipping comforts and tobacco to the New South Wales ctnlingeht. The Government has chartered tho White Star Liner Africa to transport ticops to South Africa during February. It liai> been ascertained that Kruger's Anerican food imports lwe been doub'ed since March. Fresh stringent ticket regulations havo been adopted in collection with the departure of Hamburg steomeis for Delagoa Bay. Colonel Brabant, the officer commanding Brabant's Horse Regiment of Irregulars, recently raised in Cape Colony, haa beeu promoted to the rank of Brigadier, and now commands n strong division of Colonial Irregulars. BRITISH SEIZE A CARGO OF FLOUR. 800 ENGLISH VOLUNTEERS FOR THE FRONT. SMART WORK OF ENGINEERS AT TUGELA. Received January 22, at 9 a.m. DURBAN, January 21. Tho barque Marie, from Port Augusta, with Australian flour for Kruger, was seized by the British authorities in Delagoa Bay aud brought to Durban. LONDON, January 21. Eight hundred of the Volunteer force raised by the Lord Mayor of London, attended service at St. Paul's Cathedral and aupped with the Benchers of Grey's Inn and Lincoln's Inn and sailed for Scuth Africa amidst immense enthusiasm. Tho Engineers pontooned the Tugela for tho passage of the Ladysmith relief column in two hours, a record.