The authorities at Capetown-are preparing for all contingencies, and removing the Boer prisoners aboard transports.
The recruiting for a new Defence Corps is going on briskly, all: classes of loyalists joining, A Town Guard is forming.
Martial Law has been extended.
The farmers who are coming in from Carnarvon describe the Boers as travelling in parallel columns, with numerous flanking parties, sweeping the country of horses and eatables.
The British have evacuated Faure-smith and Jagersfontein for the purpose of concentration.
An influential Burgher Peace. Committee has been formed at Pretoria.
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