PEACE NEGOTIATIONS.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 431, 2 June 1902, Page 2

PEACE NEGOTIATIONS.

HOPEFUL MESSAGES. STATEMENT AT BRUSSELS. CAPE TROUBLES. By telegraph—Press AssociationCopyright.

LONDON, May 31, Advices received at Brussels states that the Boer delegates intend signing for peace in the name of the members of the former Orange Free State and Transvaal Governments, 1 including Kruger, in order to prevent t-ne irreconcilables alleging that they are continuing the guerilla warfare in obedience to the delegates in Europe. The progressive members of the Capa Parliament fear that the Cape Dutch will refuse the Bill for an indemnity for the Government’s acts during the war. They also fear that anti-impe-rial legislation will be brought In. The financial outlook is considered to be critical, owing to the enormous expenditure.

The Government undertook to conduct the war operations within the colony.

If the Constitution lie suspended it is expected that Great Britain will help to pay. The ‘Times says that the dissensions existing in Cape Colony, and the con trol of an Africander Parliament, will probably prove a fatal bar to permanent peace. The Morning Post states that the Wall street operators have received a code message from Pretoria, alleging that the terms of the amnesty alone are unsettled. The Boers, it is stated, appealed to' the magnanimity of Great Britain, saying that they were unable to desert those who had helped them throughout.

There are indications that Great Britain has agreed to take cognisance of only traitorous conduct on the part of the leaders of the Cape Colony rebellion.