BULLER AT AMESFOORT. DEVJET TREKKiHG NORTH. KITCHENER PURSUES HIM. FEARS FOR THE ELANDS RIVER GARRISON. (Eleotfio Telegraph— Copytight-Unitea Preen Association.), London, Aug. 9. General Buller occupied Amesfoort, south of Ermelo, on Tuesday. Thirty-five British were wounded. General Botha's opposition was half hearted. Sir Charles Warren is returning to Eng. land after pacifying the districts north of the Orange river. (Received August 10, 9 a.m.) London, Aug. 9 Lord Roberts fears that the Elands river garrison, uuder Lieutenant-Colonel Hoare, of the Dragoon Guards, has been captured, after resisting ten days. The surmise is thatConimandantDelarey, who is besieging Rustenburg, abandoned his chance of capturing General Baden- Powell and hurried to Elands river, where firing ceased on Monday. Generals Hamilton and Powell left Uustenburg for Elands river on Tuesday. Dewet crossed the Vaal river on Tuesday. Lord Kitchener is pursuing him. Lord Methuen, operating on the right hank of the Vaal river, came into contact .litli De Wet's vaoguard on Tuesday. A Delagoa Bay correspondent of the Daily Express Btates that three hundred Australian Bushmen participated in an engagement between Zeerust aud Rusten burg, the British being badly repulsed. The casualties numbered 150. [It is difficult to see how information from the direction of Zeerust could have reached Delagoa' Bay. It is possible that, the above refers to the Elands river garrison.] Aug. 8. Mr Steyn is dangerously ill. The Boers captured two of Carrington's scouts disguised as. Transvaal burghers. Two of the Canadian mounted men were sentenced to ten years' imprisonment for commandeering Boer arms with forged orders and selling them to other Boers. Pretoria, Ang. 8. A force of 5000 Transvaal constabulary is' being formed. Many colonials are joining. Lorenzo Makqubz, Aug. 8. The Boer agents at Delatjoa Bay are panic-stricken at the dismissal of Customs officials.
NEW ZEALANDERS WOUNDED.
