The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-17

London, Oct 16.--Dspatcf1es from the
Cape are very meager to-night, but
they include an important message
from Glencoe, dated $50 this (Monday)
afternoon, announcing that the Boer
ccmnlandos which invaded Natal
through Laing's Neck and, after occu-
pying New Castle advanced to Damn
hauser retired on Ingagene their trans
port service being reported defective.
This will delay indefinitely the antic-
pated and hoped-for assault on the
strong British position at Glencoe.
Another dispatch reports activity in
the Free State in the neighborhood OF
AHwalnorth, on the southern frontier.
The Beers advance patrol, the dispatch
says, go to the frontier bridge nightly
to keep watch, firing shots at intervals
as signals. 1t is believed the enemy
intends shortly to rush the railway sta
ton with the help of artillery posted
on a, ridge commanding the town.
There are rulmors that the Beers have
been repulsed at Mafeking and are at
tacking Vryburg.
Cape Town paper has a dispatch
from the Orange river Stating that the
telegraph wires have been cut between
Vryburg and Kimberley, and it is be-
lieved that the Beers are taking ad-
vantage Of the presence Of large gath
eripg Of disloyal farmers at Vryburg,
celebrating the machtnFaal. to attack
the town. The same dispatch says thAa
the British force at Kimberley is conf
dant Of it's ability to hold out. but ad-
vises the dispatch of relief force
The question Of a. possible rising of
the Dutch farmers in the northern por-
tions Of Cape Colony is very important.
The Daily Mails correspondent at
Colesburg has been inquirinS regarding
the matter and, on the whole, thinks
the chances are against a rising. He
bases his opinion on the prospects of
good crops after four lean years, which
he believes will predispose the farmers
to peace. Nevertheless, there is serious
distrust and much anti-British agita-
| ton in these districts, while the Free
! State Beers threaten an immediate in
vasion of Solesburg and Aliwalnorth. ,
The Daily Mails correspondent as
serts that Sir Alfred Milner is worked
to death and that Cape Town is surgins
with bitter resentment at what is called
| the Schreiner cabinets betrayal Of
Mafelling by its constant refusal to
send a volunteer force to it's relief.
Many residents Of Cape Town have
| relatives at Vryburg and they. are fur-
Gus with Messrs. Merrien and Sour. re-
| spectfully colonial treasurer and COM
missioner Of public works, ana the min
| listers are mobbed whenever they ap-
| pear in public. Hon. Meyer, the Afri-
| kander leader, has gone to the coun-
| try in order to escape the outbreak of
! Indignation.
| On Sunday night the streets were
| filed with angry citizens and it was
| feared that rioting would occur. This.
tcombined with the pressure of the im-
| perial government. brought the Schrei-
| ner government to a sense Of its peril
| as well as of it's duty. and moved it TO
| decide to call out the volunteers. The
| ministerial party also worked its hardest
| to prevent the ovation to Conyngham
| Greene on his arrival from Pretoria
| but it failed. The volunteers are 1850
| strong and have II piece of artillery.
There is no further news regarding the
| present position. The Natal invasion
| was made in three columns at dawn
| through Laing's Neck, the objective
point of the invaders being New Cas-
| tie.
Precautions are being taken for the
| defense of Pietermaritzburg and Dur
| ban in the remote contingency that the
| enemy may elude the vigilance of the
| British at Ladysmith and Glencoe
| camps. A dispatch from the latter
| place says the partial closing down OF
| the Natal commercial lines will not in
| terrupt the supplies for the imperial
| transports at Durham. as is imagined
| by the Beers. large quantities OF coal
| being already on the way from India.
Regular shipments will arrive from In
| dia until the Natal mines open again.