The Transvaal Crisis.
SENTENCES ON THE REFORM COMMITTEE. (Per Press Association.) Capetown, May 21. Eight of the Reform Committee in the Transvaal have been discharged, four received a year's imprisonment, nineteen received three months', and eighteen directed to re-petition in five months. Four, for refusing to petition, had the sentences maintained. \ll the fines imposed are to be enforced, but banishment from the country is suspended if the prisoners agee nob to engage in politics. Sir fl. Robinson wires that the sentences passed on Colonel Rhode?, Phillips, Hammond, and Farrer— principal members of the Committee — is a matter of form, and will be revised in a week. London, May 21. The Times declares the Transvaal objected to Sir Graham Bo wen being nominated as successor to Sir J.De Wet, as British Consul. The Standard refers to President Kruger's grudging clemency as mere expediency.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 272, 22 May 1896, Page 2
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