BRITON AND BOER.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 440, 12 June 1902, Page 2

BRITON AND BOER.

HEARTY FEI.ICITA TION s

GERMANS WANT TO REAP SPOILS

ITALIANS DESIRE TO EMIGRATE.

MR SEDDON AT MADEIRA

By telegraph—Press AssociationCopyright.

LONDON, June 11. A proclamation issued at Pretoria imposes a tax equal to one-tenth of the value of gold produced after deduction of the cost of production and sums allowed for the exhaustion of capital.

M. Prinetti, Italian Minister for Foreign Affairs, is enquiring at Pretoria as to the possibility of sending* emigrants to South Africa.

Opperman’s commando has surren dered at Pretoria. They are delight ed at peacei

Mullen’s commando at Balmoral gleefully threw down their rides, and insisted on shaking hands with the British officers. They had a big singsong in tiie .evening. Commandant) Fouche represented the Boer Government when Bezindenhot’s and Odendaal’s commandos surrendered at Aliwal. Commandant Fouche, responding to Colonel Tervan’s complimentary welcome, expressed the 'hope that the next time he fought, it would be beside the British.

A conference of magistrates at Orange Colony discussed the question of the earliest date of repatriation or the Boers. Skirmishes which have occurred are due to the great area to be covered, the peace emissaries having had difficulty in communicating the early news ol peace to the isolated outposts. Three hundred and seventy-seven Boers have surrendered at Hopetoun, including 332 rebels. Seven thousand Boers surrendered up, to Monday. Mr Seddon, in the course ol an interview at Madiera, said that lie would have preferred firmer peace conditions. The Berlin newspaper, Neu Preuss Krenz Zeiiung, urges Germany and America to co-operate to secure the maintenance of an open-door policy in South Africa.