CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

Manawatu Herald, 4 July 1899, Page 2

CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

The Transvaal.

The Bth Company of the Eoyal Engineers, at present stationed at Chatham, %as been ordered to th^ Oipe. Large quanties of railway material are being sent out with the troops. The Outlander9' Council claims that the Transvaal Government shall grant full cilia ?nsbip (0 outlanders

who have settled in the Republic, the granting of this claim to be mide simultaneously with a redistribution of seats in the Riad. The speech recently delivered by Mr Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies, at Birmingham, has oiused a great commotion in Pretoria. Afrikanders are leaving Marking, British Bechuanaland, to join the Transvaal Artillery. At all centres of population thousands of residents are eagerly signing the monster petition to the Q teen in favour of the concession of the franchise to the ou danders. Enthusiastic meetings in support of the petition have been held at Grahamstown, Port E'izibetb, and East London. Germans and Americans in the Transvaal have appealed to their respective Consuls for a forae of marines to protect their property in the event of hostilities breaking out. Sir Alfred Miloer, Governor of Cape Colony and British High Commissioner for South Africa, speaking it the City Club, in this town, said that if troublous times were experienced in South Africa during the next; two yeirs he hoped the colonists would remember that be had tried to do his duty.