A BRUSH WITH THE ENEMY. Wednesday. 18t.li April, was a. quiet day with us, but'al the Glen, about twelve miles north, a slight skirmish took place between some of our' cavalry and a number of Boers, who apparently weiv anxious, to work west wards from the position held by thorn.. A commando «'f Bovi-.-i endeavoured to suddenly shoot across about a mile of veldt running be tween tlmk<>i>j'.s lu-ld l>y them mid the euval rv. They traveled about halt'a-mile am gal lop, when the British forces opened out <m them, and cheektxl their advance. The Boers darted northwards, with the intention of taking a short cut behind a wedge-shaped low-lying kopje, covered with largo boulders and stunted trees, affording splendid shelter. The cavalry anticipated this movement, however, and crossing the plain in Boer formation —perfectly safe, as the ewmy ap parently had no guns either to east or north wliile the infantry extended out on o«r bft or western flank—headed bark the Boers, and almost succeeded in cutting them off. This is no easy tusk, as our cavalry leaders havo by this time discovered, and before our men could get round the Boers had retired to their original position, where they opened out a hot lire on our men, the Mausers banging away spitefully for ten minutes. While the Boers were thus engaged, some additional cavalry—T think thti 6th Dragoon Gu;irds and 10th Hussars—suddenly ap peared through an opening on the kopjes lying oast, and galloped across the veldt. Had they succeeded in getting round to the back of the kopje, on which the. Boers had retired, the whole commando would have been captured. But tho opposing comman der, apparently one- of the Johannesburg Police, saw the. movement in time, and managed to get his subordinate oilicers and men away just as the cavalry approached the kopje. THE BOER POSITIONS VACATED.
