The Feilding Star, Oraua & Kiwitea Counteis Gazette. Published Daily. FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 1895. THE TRANSVAAL TROUBLE.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 160, 9 January 1896, Page 2

The Feilding Star, Oraua & Kiwitea Counteis Gazette. Published Daily. FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 1895. THE TRANSVAAL TROUBLE.

Lateb news throws more light on the causes which led to the failure of Dr Jaraieson's expedition. He was advancing in good faith to the assistance of the Tlitlanders in Johannesberg, who on their part were to send him reinforcements, but the latter ivere prevented coalescing with Jamieson by the " military precautions and specious promises of the Boers." In the Cape Jamieson while being condemned for precipitating events, is regarded as a martyr to money grubbing Uitlanders who would talk but wouldn't fight. In Johannesberg there is a revulsion of feeling against the leaders of the re-: form movement for deserting Jamieson after having sought his help. From Ibis we may infer that when we have heard Dr Jamieson in his own defence, he will be able to show he was amply justified in his action. Instead of being a martyr he wou'd have been a hero had he been properly supported by those on whom he had been taught to rely in his hour of need. ♦' That young man William " as Bisumrk was wonc to designate the Etuperor of Germany, is determined if perversity and folly can do it, to further complicate Oiattsrs. We are told that Leyds, the ¥#3A?vaal envoy, had a. gratifying interview with Emperor William, who is reported to fcay^e /expressed his recognition of fch® eosoplet.fi independence of the -Transvaal. His * ffiqog^tion " will not, we are thankful to ,33-7, iUy priye England of one jot or tittle of Jtgr rights of suzerainty which were if^tl^-paciognis^d in 1884, by IBoera and JScitraft '"aHta^ ?:: Eo &«• *s t&e Governor

>f the Cape is concerned he has moved n the direction of keeping the peace by seizing the South Africa Company's munitions of war stored at Buluwayo rod Mafeking and thus clipping the wings of Mr Cecil Rhodes, the actual if not the nominal head of the company. Of course ii there is any evidence shown of an intention on the part of the Boers to assume the aggressive these munitions will be promptly released and made available for defence purposes. It is only in the hope of practical help from Germany that the Boers are likely to make an attempt to still farther oppress the Uitlanders by preventing their attainment of the political rights they have demanded, and Germany is not likely to risk a war with England for such a small matter as the Transvaal trouble really is when compared with the terrible consequences of a European war.