Oroua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette I3tzblish.ecL X>aily-THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1897. '"OOM PAUL."

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Oroua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette I 3 tzblish.ecL X>ailyTHURSDAY, MAY 6, 1897. '"OOM PAUL."

» - PuEsiuiivr Kruger, of the Transvaal, >i the opt-ning of the Volksraad is repurtcd to have <aid that as his term of otlico wou cl expire in 1898 it would be necessary to elect a successor. He claimed that while guarding the independence of tho Transvaal he had sought to break the clouds which had menaced peaceful co-operation in South Africa. No one who has watched wiih any interest the progress of the L'ninsvaal during the Presidency of Mr Kiuger, can form any other opinion but that he will again be elected us Clii'-f L'kiswn of the State. Howaver much the Uitlnnders may dislike and dread him, the lioers respect and .tdmire " Ooiii Paul" more than any o her man m Africa. Did they not do ho (.liny would be abominably ungrateful. While Kruger prated about die independence of the Transvaal, he appeared to forget altogether that he dad made it impossible for tho Uitlanders to whom the prosperity of the State is so largely owing, to secure ■ uything like either political liberty or independence of uny kind whatever. Ho spoke of peace, while his military storesancl forts were teeming with arms and munitions of war, collected with tho avowed intention of protecting tho State from an attack by British troops ; an event he has done his very best to briwi into existance by continued acts of insolence, and provocation in a var«ty of way*. He does not appear to recognise that he still owes allegiance to England, nor that the very existence oE the freedom he boasts so much about ih entirely owing to the generosity of that Power. The " Writing on the wall " foretells that the Transvaal is menaced with a greater danger than an attack by England, and that is an iuternal revolution, which, in the near future will burst out with all the greater violence that it has been so long repressed, unless radical reforms are efiected, and the Uitlanders given the same political rights as the Boers.