§ COLONEL WYNDHAM MURRAY (Bath)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for War whether he has any information that he can give with reference to an attack on a convoy near Klerksdorp by 1,000 Boers, who tried to rush the two guns, and got within close range of the convoy, and within range of the fortifications of the place, and especially as to the action of the garrison of Klerksdorp on that occasion.
§ MR. BRODRICKI have no information of any engagement near Klerksdorp other than of one which took place about thirty miles from that place on the 26th May, when the Boers made a determined attack in superior force on a convoy between Ventersdorp and Potchefstroom. The Boers were driven off and the convoy arrived safely. Our losses were four killed and thirty wounded. I have no further details of this engagement.