The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1899-12-01

II IL reported today that the Beers
have attacked Thurman and sustained
heavy loss. II Is hard. however. to
conjecture why the Beers would waste
on village far out on |
the plains. defended by 200 police.
II IL further asserted that the Beers |
have no serious Intention Of invading |
Cape Colony. but intend to concentrate |
their scattered forces with the view OF
opposing the British advance across
the southern border Of the Free State.
The presence OF the Beers in so
many towns in Cape Colony has caused
Sir Alfred Miner, the Governor. to
proclaim martial law in those places.
The British forces have retreated from
these points and are being concentrat-
ed on the Orange river.
IRISH WITH THE BOERs.
LONDON. Nov. 2O.-The Irish
Transvaal Committee has appealed for
funds to enable It to send an ambu-
lance to the Irish brigade In the Boer
service. The appeal says:
"The 1rishmen now fighting side by
side with the Beers have lessened the
disgrace brought on Ireland by the
1rishmen who are SO unfortunate as to
be Influenced by necessities to fight by
the side Of England"
The appeal Is signed by Miss Maude
Come. Mrs. w. Redmond, T. ID. Sulli-
van and others.
MINE MANAGERS PRECAUTIONS.
PRETORIA, Nov. 20 (via Lourenxo
Marqaes).- Mining Department
has discovered beneath the managers
house at the Ferreira mine a passage
leading to O suite of apartments, forty
feet below the ground, with gas and
water pipes laid down. This Is sup
posed to have been intended to serve
as rendezvous for the employees Of
the Ferreira mine, in the event of
bOmbardment OF Johannesburg.
A CORRESPONDENTS VIEWS.
NEW YORK, Nov. 20.-A dispatch
to the Tribune from London says:
Estcourt has remained the center Of
interest for the last swenty-four hours,
since the Dutch allies are attempting
to carry out at the last moment the
tactics which might have been most
effective fortnight ago The War
Office bulletin during dhe forenoon
tended to minimize the earlier reports
OF Boer repulse by the garrison. It
was a light outpost affair, with a single
shell fired from the naval gun and q
hasty retreat OF the small force of the
enemy. 1t might have been explained
as an unsuccessful attempt OF Free
State raiders to destroy the railway
bridge I half mile away. IL General
Hildyard had not reported large
Boer force further back on high hill.
In inference 1t was plain that the
Dutch allies were concentrating sew
eral commands upon Estcourt and
might attack the garrison or draw 1t
into an ambuscade before adequate re-
Inducements with field artillery could
he sent up from the coast.
Between the lines OF the official dis
patch could be read the motive OF this
naneuver OF a weak Boer force which
was neither reconnoitering nor at
tempting to carry the position by a
sudden rush, but was evidently seek
ing to draw out the provincial cavalry
after II a few miles, where 1t could be
entrapped by larger body In reserve
These tactics, which had succeeded
after the battle of Glencoe, failed or
second trial. Military men in com.
menting upon the AFFAIR last evening
derived comfort fronlthe practical evi.
dence that the British forces were be.
coming more wary and suspicious and
also from the plain admission that the
naval guns were In position. The shell
which scattered the Beers decOys also
dispelled the allusion that Estcourt was
without powerful artillery and incapa.
BILE of defense against Boer gun fire
iLe naval brigade was on guard. ever
II the three batteries OF field artiller,
were barely of the ship, with horses
soft from protracted voyage.
The news from Lower Natal Ia meag
er since the censorship Ia rigidly en-
forced there. But there is stront
probability that the BOer attack upOr
Estcourt has been delayed too long u
be effectual. Military men at the ser
vice clubs breathed freely last night
and cOntended that the Beers ha1
missed their last chance in the cam
paign and would be soon DverpOwere<
by superior numbers and scdence.
Belated dispatches from the southerl
frontier of the Free State only serves
: to explain why achievements ha'
: been sent to East London, and westefa
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