The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-10-17
kFTER TEROCCUPYNGNEWCASTLE
Activity OF Orange Free State
commando on Southern
Frontier Of Cape Colony.
VERY BITTER RESENTMENT
shown Against the schreiner
Cabinet for Refusing to Sue
cor Maieking.

LONDON, oct 1s.-Dispatehes from
the Cape are very measre tonight, but
they include an important message
from Glencoe camp dated s;s5 this
tMondny) afternoon, announcing that
the Roer commandos which invaded
Natal through Laing's Mex and after
occupying New Castle advanced to
Dannhauser. retired on Ingagane yes
terday evening, their transport service
being reported defective. This viii de-
lay indefinitely the anticipated and
hoped for assault on the strong British
position at Glencoe.
Another dispatch reports activity on
the part of the Free State commando in
the neighborhood OF Allwalnorth on
the southern frontier The Beers ad-
vance patrol. the dispatch says. 80 to
the frontier bridge nightly to keep
watch, firing shots at Intervals as sig
mails. It is believed the enemy intends
shortly to try to rush the railroad sta
tion. With the help Of artillery posted
on a ridge commanding the town,
There ale ramors that the Boers have
been iSpuised at Mafeking and are at
taclSing vryburg.
A Cape Town paper has dispatch
from the Orange river, stating that the
telegraph wires have been cut between
vryburg and Kimberley, and It Is be-
iIeged that the Bcerg are taking adj
vantage Of the presence of a large
gathering of disloyai farmers at Vry-
burg, celebrating Nachtnaai. to attack
the town, hoping that the farmers VIII
assist them against the 8rltlsh
The same dispatch says hat the Brit
ish force at Kimberley q cophdept Of
4n ablBtR 10 hold out hiikt ktirea The In
mediate dispatch Of relief force.
Rising of Dutch Farmers.
This question Of possible rising Of
the Dutch farmers In the northern por-
tlons of Cape Colony Is very important.
The Daily Mails correspondent at
colesburg has been lnquirlng regarding
the matter and on the whole thinks the
chances are against a rising. He bases
his opinion on the prospect of good
crops after four lean years, which ,he
believes will predispose the farmers to
peace. Nevertheless, there IS serious
disloyalty and much anti-Britlsh agita-
tion In these districts, while the Free
State Beers threaten an immediate In
vasIon of colesburg and AlIwalnorth.
The Daily Mails correspondent as
serts that Sir Alfred Miner IS worked
to death, and that Cape Town is surg
ing with bitter resentment OF what is
called the schrelner cabinets betrayal
Of Mafeklng by its constant refusal to
send force OF volunteer artillery to It's
relief. Many residents of Cape Town
have relatives at vryburg and they are
furious with Messrs MerrIman and
sauer, respectively colonial treasurer
and commissioner of public works, and
the ministers are mobbed whenever
they appear in public. Mr.. Hofmeyer.
the Afrikander leader. has gone to the
country in order to escape the outhurEts
Of Indignation.
Threatened Riots.
on Sunday night the streets were
filled with angry citizens, And 1t was
feared that rioting would occur. This,
combined with the pressure of the i'm
perlaI government, brought the
schrelner government TO sense OF its
peril as well of It's duty and moved 1t to
decide to call out the vOlunteres. The
ministerial party also worked its hard
est to prevent the ovation to conyn-
CHAM Greene on his arrival from Pre-
toria, but failed. The volunteers are
1000 strong and have eleven pieces OF
artillery. There Is no further news re-
gardlug the present position.
The Natal invasion was made In three
columns at dawn on October l2, through
Bothas Pass, Laing's Mex and from
wakkerstroom, the objective point OF
the invaders being New Castle. The
Beers utilized several thousand natives
who were tramplng from the Rand to
drive their heavy guns up LaIng's Mex.
Precautions are being taken for the
defense OF Pietermnritzburg and Dur
ban, in the remote contingency that the
enemy mny elude the vigilance of the
British at the Ladysmlth and Glencoe
camps.
A dispatch from the latter place says
the partial closing down of the Natal
coal mines Will not interrupt the sup
plies for the Imperial transports Mt
Durham. ms was imagined by the
Beers, large quantities Of coal being
nlrcady on the water from India, Reg.
ular shipments viii arrive from India
until the Natal mines open again.
OTIFPN'S SPEECH