THE BOER LEADERS. (By Uitlander, in the Argas.)

It was Etated in London at the be ginning of 1 vet month tbab Che War Office bad r qaisibloned C000 draught horses from omnibai and tramway companies io Eogland. Of the Johannesburg Irish Brigade, oamberiog 700, 150 were despatched fcj the Boer camps oo the Nst^l fron tier tarly in October. About of the Gc man Corps lefb on the sane day, >Lc German and Traneva»l fligs flying from their train. The Scandi navians resolved to remain neotr.l, bub have olfeted t) act as police. A great sensation waa caased io Vrybarg (Cape Colony) on October 2nd, by the Hidden calling up of the local mounted rides, who were told bhey would tc on duty for defensive purpoies until farther orders, T&eir iieatenanb, who had been married the day previously, bad ie 'I f >r Kimbor» ley, wai aummoLcl back from bid honeymoon. Among the pasEcagcs by the South African liae», Dnnott*r Cuetlr, wh cb efb Southampton for the Cipo oa Oc^ tober 14, wibb Sir Redvers Bullr and •taflf, was Earl De La Wurr, son-'in^ law of the Governor of Victoria, who goei to the Transvaal as war corres pondent for the Glotc, a London eveni ing paper. OiIodcI Ion Standiah M Hamilton, C.B., D.S.O., who commanded one of the brigades at Elandilaagte, went oati to South Africa recently an a special service officer. Previously he bad been commanding the School of Musketry a Hytbe, and late of the Gordon Highlanders, Ib is hardly ncccisary to stale tbab efficiency in ihoot ng would be a gr at desiderata Io Transvaal warfare. Colonel Ham« ilton ia an expert in Ihe work. He has sei'Tci aa A.D.C. to the Ojm. mander-in-Ojief In Madras, and waa Afsietino Adjat^ct 'General for mas ktt'-y in BeDgal in 1893. He wai, afte-, from 1893 to 1895 Military Seer tary to the Coaimander-iQ-Chief in India, and from 1895 to 1898 was \ Dcpoty Qoarter-Maiter>General in ludl». During bia period of aervic in India he saw a great deal of iijhti ing, and telped mnch to make the Goidon HigblaadoiB a splendid shoot* log regiment,

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