Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1900-07-07
Beers FIGHTING VlGOR
Thy Still HaraSs British and
Threaten the Lines.
M.thusn Makes a Capture Shipments Through
Portuguese Territory Blow Up
Magazine.

London, June 80. ago a. inactive
Boer guerilla operations are reported
from half dozen points in Orange riv-
er colony.
The War Office has received the fol-
lowing from Lord Roberts:
Pretoria. June 29.--Paget reports
from Lindley that he was engaged on
June Goth with a body of the enemy.
who were strongly reinforced during
the day. A convoy Of stores for The
Lindley garrison was also attacked on
June 26th. but after a heavy rear
ley in safety. Our casualties were ten
killed and four officers and about iifty
men wounded.
THE fight reported yesterday was
under Lieutenant Colonel Grenfell not
Dreiper. Brabant came up during the
engagement Total casualties Of the
two columns three killed and twenty
three wounded.
"On the previous day. near Ficks-
burg, Boyes' brigade was in action with
a body of the enemy. Our casuGlt es
were two officers killed, four men
wounded and one man missing.
"Methuen found yesterday that the
Boer lager near Vachkop and Spitz-
kop had been hastily removed in the
direction of Lindley. He followed the
enemy twelve miles and captured 5000
sheep and 500 head of cattle, which the
enemy had seized in that neighborhood.
Our casualties were four men wound
ed.
Hunter continued his march yester-
day toward the Naal river unopposed.
Many farmers along the route have
surrendered.
Springs, the terminus of the rail-
road from Johannesburg. due eaat, was
attacked yesterday morning. Tho
Canadian regiment which garrisonei
| the place beat off the enemy. No cas-
ualties are reported.
Lieutenant North, reported missing
after the attack on the construction
train, is a prisoner of the Beers
Boer official reports from Machado-
dorp aver that part of British con-
voy was captured on June Gath nea:
Winburg.
The Lourenzo Marques correspondent
| of the Times. says: Both the burgh-
ers and the foreigners who are arriving
here profess a strong belief that 1t will
take from three to six months TO sub
due the Beers
Another dispatch from Lourenzc
Marques says: "A consignment Of q
foreign firm, marked Dutch cheese
damaged proved on landing to con
tain army boots for the Beers. Il
passed the customs. nevertheless, with
unusual dispatch. and the British Con
sui is making representations to the
Portuguese Government"
A Cape Town dispatch reports an at
tempt by the Beers to blow up the ar
tillery barracks and magazine at Pre-
toria. 1t is added that an artillerymar
who frustrated the attempt by with
drawing a lighted fuse was killed by {
Boer. whom the soldiers afterward at
tempted to lynch.
The British authorities are deportinl
large number of Hollanders to HOLLAND
to be dealt with by their own Govern
ment for not observing the state O
neutrality declared by the Netherlands
President Steyn is reported 20 be n
Bethlehem, consulting with Genera
De Wet.
Sir Alfred Miner, the British Higl
Commissioner, has notified the Govern
ment to pay the interest on the Ere
State per cent loan, due July It'll, o.
condition that there is no liability 70
further interest.