Reuter's correspondent, wiring from the camp at Potgieter's Drift or. Monday last, says that the advance began on Wednesday (the 9th inst.), when Lord Dundonald's mounted brigade with the fifth division under General Hart marched to Springfield, having previously reconnoitred, and all the suspicious country being thoroughly scouted. 'The' column reached Mount Alice, facing the enemy's position on the Tugela heights. The South African Horse swam the river and fetched a pontoon (bridge) across, and the enemy, bei..g taken by surprise, struck their-camp.
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