Show IGHTING IS INCESSANT V Lato Advices are that Preach Hos i Colesberg Surrounded > 1ondon Jan4There is great satls V faction hero at the news that Do Aar has been able to send Gen French re iilforcement ot guns and Infantry of which ho appears to bo so much In need Thelighting In tho hills is incessant I in-cessant The latest telegrams say Gen French has almost surrounded Coles bjrg but that tho Boers arc stimy de finding all their positions close to the town preventing the British from capturing cap-turing It V A dispatch from Hcinsbcrg this morning morn-ing says the heavy artillery duel recommenced re-commenced at daybreak V FIGHT NEAR MOLTENO Further details of the lighting be ttvoon Gen Gatacre and the Boers at Cyphcrgat show that 3000 Boers with artillery attacked a British outpost between be-tween Cyphcrgat and Molteno Gen Gatacre with mounted troops and field artillery moved out In front of Sterk Ktrom and found the Boers strongly p6sted at Coporsberg whence they were quickly dislodged the Boers fleeing In tlio direction of Stormbfirg The Boers used the British guns captured Dccom bor 10th and shot well but the British kppt under cover and there were no pasuallles on their side 3IETHTJEN AND FRENCH REPORT The War ofllco has received a report from Capetown dated Wednesday January Jan-uary 3rd reporting the situation in Gen V Gatacros district It says Dordrecht is now evacuated by lontinorcncy who occupies Birds Siding Sid-ing on the Indwo line Molteno Is being attacked today by the enemy who niore or less surround the police Bta ton but who according to reports are being forced back Reinforcements of mounted Infantry and Held artillery 1 havo been sent by Gen Gatacre The result la not known A company oC mounted Infanlry under Aldcrson has reconnoitered to Pricsko and exchanged ex-changed shots with the rebel force on the north bank No movement of Geng JklethURii or French is reported DOUGLASS EVACUATED A dispatch from Belmont Capo Colony Col-ony dated Wednesday January 3rd say Col Pllcher It is ofllclally an nuunced being only on a raiding expedition expe-dition and for military reasons being 4 unable to occupy Douglass permanent ly has evacuated the town bringing oft ajl the loyalists He has now returned safely to close proximity to Belmont When ho announced the necessity of evacuallng the place the inhabitants I declared their lives were not worth live minutes purchase after the troops loft Col Pllcher therefore invited t them to accompany him to Belmont I The preparations were speedily completed com-pleted but the vehicles of the town were totally inadequate to convey the refugees so the troops gave up the transport wagons lo ihe women ami children The Canadians acted as an escort of the refugees carried babies for V the women and kept everybody lively V by singing as they marched along In UI spllo of sore feet occasioned by the I iujAvy sand which math marching ex tvemely tiring The force received Gen p Bullers congratulations on the success V of the expedition with great satisfaction I satisfac-tion tionSJORIVIISU NEAR BELMONT There was a small skirmish near Del nont Wednesday morning The Brit V 1li fired a few shells but the Boers did V not respond i A detachment of about 1 forty Boers attempted to rush Klok l i fontein this morning but were beaten back by the mounted infantry Possibly 7 1V Possi-bly this force consisted of fugitives from Sunnyalde Reinforcements Of Infantry In-fantry and artillery have bwn dispatched dis-patched to Gen French from De Anr |