Africa.

Manawatu Herald, 19 May 1896, Page 2

Africa.

A private telegram received in London states that the sentences oo Colonel Rhodes, Phillips, Hammond and Farrar, who were originally condemned to death, have .been commuted to five years' imprisonment.

The telegram adds that the sentences passed on the other prisoners, who were at first sent to gaol for two years, fined £2000 taeb, and banished for three years, have b^en reduced to a term of one yea* each.

Siv Graham Bower succeeds Sir Jacobus Da Wet as Britisb Agent here, pending a permanent appoint*

raent.

The Government baf withdrawn its support from the proposed exhibition at Johannesburg, and iti opening has been postponed for a year. Mr Cbambedain has cabled to Sir Hercnlea Robinson that he bad no intention of defending Mr Cecil Rhodes in his speech. Tbe Government, he says, will await the decision of the Joint Committee of the Lords and Commons which is to investigate the whole case after the Courts bare dealt with Jameson and his affaire/ and he deprecates a hasty judgment being formed. President Kruger has oommunU cated with Mr Chamberlain thanking him for tin assuranos that a full en« quiry will be madd into receqt events.

Captain Napier's faroe defeated a rebel induna, killing fifty of his followers. Ie will effect a junction with Mr Cecil Rhodes with' sit ban* died men. Heavy fighting is ex* posted. The town of Salisbury has three weeks' food supply. Captain Napier's scouts followed the Matable for four miles into tbe forest, and killed eighty. The PorLuguß3e are lending the Chartered Company rifles, horses and waggons.