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Estcourt, Nov. 27.—The Twelfth Lan-~ cers are reported to have attacked Piet Retrief’s force at Weenen and to have ine flicted zreet loss on the Boers,

General Hildyard’s troeps bivouaced last night at Frere. Two Boers have been captured. One of them, a doctor, entered the Briti>b camp uader “the belief that it was a Boer bivouac.

Lowpon, Nov. 30.—The War Office has received from the General commanding at Cape Town the following despatch :

Received from Moader River, Nov. 30:b:

‘ KILLED.

Staff Colonel H. P. Northcote ; Second Coldstreams ; Lieutenant Colonel H. R. Stopford, Captain Earle.

WOUNDED.

Artillery—Major W. Lindeay, Captain Farrell, Lieutenant Dunlop, Lieutenant Freerze ; Third Grenadiers—Moajar Count Gleichson, Lieutenant the Hon. F. BH. Luggon; Coldstreams—Lieutenant Vise count Acheson ; Medical Corpe—G. A. Moore.

Thecasualties among the officers of the Ninth Brigade and the men of the division will follow.

Lonpowx, Dec. 1.—Speaking last night at a dinner given by the Scotts Corporation of this city,

FIELD MARSHAL LORD WOLSELEY

said that he had no iutention of criticising arvibing that had taken place in South Africa since the outbreak of hostilities in that country.

Bat he would esy this much, however. It bad been decided bv the War office to call out one move division of troops, to be drawn from the Second Army Corps. Perhaps before the week was out, certain. ly before four or five days,this force would be on the way to South Africa.

METHUEN’S WOUND SLIGHT

Loxpoy, Dec l.—The War Office an- nounced to-day that General Methuen’s wound isavery slight one, and that he wil! probably be all right ina few days.

MODDER RIVER CASUALTIES.

The casualties on the British side in the Modder River fight, so far as is kcrown, were four officers killed and nineteen wounded. This is probably not the full list, as a former message which gave these same figures stated that other casualties in the Ninth Brigade would follow.

Estcourt, Natal, Nov 30.—Heavy firing was heard to-day, apparently in tbe direc- tion of Ladysmith. The Boers are said to be in strength at Groble’s Kopje and at Colenso.

Frere, Natal, Dec. 1. via Estcourt.—A junction was successfully made between the British troops from Mooi River and Estcourt, and all the garrison was then

MOVED FORWARD TO _ FRERE,

which is a station on the line of Colenso, about ten miles north of Estcourt.

During the march to Frere the troops were bivouaced on the open plains, During this operation splendid scouting was done by the mounted infantry.

A troop of the Imperial Light Horse accompanied a irain that is making re- pairs to the railway, There were no lesa than

EIGHT BREAKS IN THE LINE

between Escourt and Frere, and some of the bridges had been destroyed.

A number of Boers who were watching the forward movement of the British

FURTHER PARTICULARS OF MODDER RIVER FIGHT

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LORD METHUEN'S WOUND

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force, set fire tothe grass as a signal to their countrymen chat the British were advancing, Their plan in making these signals is to place a wet skin over the grass, sad then quickly lift it up, causing a cojumn cf smoke to ascend.

Two of these Boers were killed by evr

ecouts. The others were then reinforced

’ Imperial Light Horse, which had been

Modder River, it appears that General

by forty men, and a detachment of the

engaged with them, retired. Belbam’s Horse then reinforced the Im- perial Light Horse and the

BOERS WERE DRIVEN OF*?.

Loxpon, Dec. 1-—From particulars tha; have come to hand regarding the fight at

Tord Methuen after delivering a fine old- time address to to the truops in his com= mand, just before the begmning of the battle, was himself soon under fire and rece‘ved s bullet wound in the thigh. The moinS) -ortunately, is esid to be only a slight ore which the trained athlete was inclined to disregard alto- gether, at least until his force had reached Kim berley. That the

FIGHT WAS A DESFERATE ONE

is judged from the fact that the members of the stafi were in the thick of it, Lienten- ant Colonel Northcote, of the Leinster Regiment, who was serving as Deputy Adjutant General, being among the killed. He was a campaigner of Irish birth and

fine executive ability.

Court Glecihen, the Queen’s grand nep- hew, was severely wounded. He is the son of Prince Victor Hohenlohe, and lives

lod St. James’ Palace when in London. He

joined the Grenadier Guards eighteen years ago, aod was fighting with them asa | mejor of his regiment whea he was wound-

ed in the Modder River fight.

Lientenant Lygon, of the same regiment who is slightly wounded,is a brother of Lord Beauchamp, and is the heir pre- sumptive to the Earldom.

Among the killed is Lieutenant Cols onel Stopford, of the .*econd batitalion of the Coldstream Guards, a well known figure in Loadon society.

Among the wounded in the same bat. talioa is young Viscount Acheson, who is heir to the Irish E arldom of Gosford.

The first list of officers of the Ninth Brigade coatained two lists of killed and a comparatively small number of wounded. As these lists were incomplete and were not accompanied by any estimates of the killed and wounded in the main force, defi- nite conlusions could not be based upon them.

Nor was Lord Methuen’s earliest report of the battle considered intelligible by the critics here at midnight, but there were

HOPEFUL FEELINGS IN THE CLUBS |

especially by those military men who spend their evenings there, that the battle of Modder River was areal and decisive one aod was not won at a terribly dispropor- tionate loss of lite on our side.

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The impression also prevailed that the victory of Modder River would be followed within forty-eight hours by tidings of the relief of Kimberley.

BOERS RETIRING IN CAPE COLONY 2 ,

The situation in Cape Colony is officially stated by General Gatacre as unchanged; bat there are rumours from the frontier villages that the Free State forces are rapidly retiring.

Britisu prospects are ‘clearing in every

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