At five o'clock "Long Tom" threw seven of his 96lb.

shells straight down the street in quick succession, smashing a few shops and killing some mules and cattle, but without further harm.

We watched them from the top of the road.

They came shrieking over our heads, and then a flare of fire and a cloud of dust and stones showed where they fell.

At every explosion the women and children laughed and cheered with delight, as at the Crystal Palace fireworks.
Both yesterday and to-day the Boers on Bulwan spent much time and money shelling a new battery which Colonel Knox has had made beside the river near the racecourse.