§ SIR E. ASHMEAD-BARTLETTI beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for War if he can state what was the number of Boer prisoners taken with General Prinsloo on the 30th July, and also the number of horses, rifles and cannon taken on the same occasion.
§ *MR. WYNDHAMLord Roberts's telegram giving the detailed numbers was published in yesterday's papers. The number surrendered on 30th July was: 986 men, 1,432 horses, 955 rifles, and one Krupp 9-pounder. Since then, on the 31st July, 1,200 men surrendered to General Hunter; and a further number, the total of which is not reported, surrendered to General Bruce Hamilton, giving up 1,200 rifles, 650 ponies, and one Armstrong gun.