Two British officers captured by Boers near Chieveley. 25.--Bluejackets blew up Tugela Road bridge, and cut off Boers with their guns. Colonel Dalgety with Mounted Police and Colonial troops held Dordrecht. (Gatacre's Division.) 26.--Sir Charles Warren arrived at the Natal front. Boers appeared at Victoria West. Mafeking force attacked a Boer fort. 27.--Boers unsuccessfully bombarded Ladysmith. 28.--H.M.S. _Magicienne_ captured German liner _Bundesrath_, near Delagoa Bay, with contraband of war on board. 30.--Skirmish near Dordrecht. Boers defeated with loss. Two British officers captured through mistaking Boers for New Zealanders. JANUARY 1900. 1.--Enrolment of the first draft of the City Imperial Volunteers. Surrender of Kuruman, after a stout resistance, to the Boers. Twelve officers and 120 police captured. General French occupied a kopje overlooking Colesberg. Flight of Boers, leaving their wrecked guns and quantities of stores. Brilliant manoeuvre by Lieutenant-Colonel Pilcher at Sunnyside. Captured the entire Boer camp, made forty prisoners, advanced and occupied Douglas on Vaal River. Colonel Plumer and Colonel Holdsworth from Rhodesia continued their march to the relief of Mafeking. 2.--Loyal inhabitants of Douglas escorted to Belmont. General French still engaged with enemy at Colesberg. 3.--General French reinforced from De Aar. Boers being surrounded; fighting in the hills. General Gatacre repulsed Boer attack on position commanding Molteno. Colonel Pilcher, for "military reasons," evacuated Douglas. 4.--General Gatacre occupied Molteno; Boers retreated to Stormberg with loss. General French manoeuvring to enclose Colesberg; further fighting. 5.--General Gatacre hotly engaged at Molteno by Boers from Stormberg; drove them off, inflicting heavy losses. 6.--Great battle at Ladysmith. Boers repulsed on every side with heavy loss. General Buller made a demonstration in force to aid General White. General French inflicted severe defeat on Boers at Colesberg. A Company of the 1st Suffolk Regiment captured. 9.--British troops invaded Free State territory near Jacobsdal. The Queensland and Canadian Volunteers cleared a large belt across the Free State border. 10.--Lord Roberts and Lord Kitchener arrived at Cape Town. Forward movement for the relief of Ladysmith from Chieveley and Frere. 11.--Sir Redvers Buller crossed the Little Tugela, and occupied the south bank of the Tugela at Potgieter's Drift. Lord Dundonald and Mounted Brigade crossed the Tugela at Potgieter's Drift. General Gatacre made a reconnaissance in force towards Stormberg. 13.--The City Imperial Volunteers left London for South Africa. 15.--Boers attacked General French and were repulsed at Colesberg.