The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1900-09-28
BRITISH AGAIN
BEAT OFF BOERS
A Pitched Battle Results in An.
other Victory for
British.

LONDON. Sept. iS.--The Daily Tele-
graph publishes the following from
.ourenzo Marquee, dated yesterday:
A pitched battle has been fought mid
way between Kaap Muiden and Hector
sprult. resulting In heavy Boer losses.
The Beers returned and now threaten
to destroy the cogwheels OF the locomo-
tives used between Waterfall Bowen
and Waterfall Onder, without which the
railway cannot be worked. They have
blocked and damaged the railway for
six miles ON the Crocodllepoort sections,
have destroyed the culverts and the
Hectorspruit bridge, and looted and
burned Komatipoort The British are
now at Komatipoort, and heavy Hght-
| ing is proceeding. 1t Is rumored that
MIR. Steyn has arrived here.
| PRETORIA, Sept. lS.-General Pole
| Carew has occupied kaap Mulden,
about twenty miles east of Nelspruit,
where he captured number of loco
motives and considerable quantity
of rolling stock.
LOURENZO MARQUEE, Sept. IS
Five hundred Boer refugees arrived
here today Twenty We're wounded.
NEW YORK, Sept. ia cable to the
Sun from Durham says: The transport
Matabele arrived here today with
eighty-two released British prisoners
aboard. They were very much emaciat-
ed and were suffering from i'll treat
ment at the hands of the Beers. They
said the conditions were very bad after
the British had captured Pretoria. Six
teen prisoners had been killed or
wounded while attempting to escape
They say there have been internecine
quarrels and bloodshed among the
Beers over the fight of President krue-
ger There are many assertions daily
| and IL Is probable, according to the
stories told by the men, that there Will
be a general surrender in few days.
| NEW YORK, Sept. 19.-Charles d
| Pierce, consul general of the Orange
Free State and trustee and the treasur-
er Of the Boer Relief fund, has received
the following cable from the Boer en-
voys, who are now at Dordrecht, Hol-
land:
"we have been informed that n proc
lamation issued by Lord Roberts, COM
mander in chief of the British troops
in South Africa contains a statement
to the effect that President Kruger
has crossed the borders of the republic
and consequently should have formally
resigned as president, and that his for
saking the cause of the Beers ought
to convince the burghers how useless
it will be to go on fighting. We feel
obliged to protest against this new in
situation, desiring to say that If the
state president of the South African
republic should have crossed the Dor
ders of his country he must have done
so by order of the 'Uitvorende Rad
Executive counciD, which body by vir-
tue of special warrant Of the Volks-
rad in its session of 1899, Is fully entl-
| tied to authorize the president to &C
abroad for some purpose of other; ac-
cording to the constitution the vice
president In such case enters upon the
duties of the state president and the
government Is carried on as before. Sc
there Is no question about abdicating
as president, or of forsaking the cause
of the Beers. The proclamation thus
can have no other purpose than by 6
false representation of facts harminE
the enemy who cannot be brought int,
submission even by the application o
measures contrary to law and Justice
PRESIDENT KRUEGER'S PLANS.
LOURENZO MARQUES, Monday
Sept. .1.-Mr. Krueger, the former
president of the South African republic
will not sail for Europe on the German
steamer Herzog, Monday, September "a
as he originally intended.
THE HAGUE, Sept l9.-The govern
ment of the Netherlands has been no
titled of Krueger's acceptance of hei
offer to place a warship at his dispose
to convey him from Lourenzo Marque,
to Holland.