CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

Manawatu Herald, 13 July 1899, Page 2

CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

The Transvaal. The Hoo W. P. Schreine, Prime Minister of Cipe Colony, has written i letter to a Band journal, in which he declared that there was no ground for the intervention of Great Britain on behalf of the outlandera in the Transvaal . Tha Premier's letter ha 3 c rented a fueling of amaz itaeat in Capetown It is widely condemned as ill-tiinKf and mischievous and as bcin<.' evidently designed to embarrass Sir Alfred Milner, British High Commissioner, and encourage Ptvaident Kruger. Sir Gordon Sprigg and other Progressive loaders consider that Pre.-i---denfc Kruger's franchise -prrpisale are totally inadfquate*. Th-j ont'anders are prof undly disappointed with the franchise pro posats made by the Transvaal Legislature, and regard them as a more sop. Mr A Fischer, mamVec of th Executive Cjuncil of the Orang Free State, who h s.-iirl fc» hiv. assisted in the negotiations in- a settlement of the difficulty, hip that the periods in the retrospective <;'a'iseß of tbi new franchise law m<y yet ba reduced by tb3 Transvaal j Legislature. *

Most of ihe Eoglisb newspaper? consider that the new Transvaal franchise scheme i<? obscure, and that the reforms made are more apparent than real. The Admiralty is mobilising 118 warships for naval manoeuvres. Mrs Edgar, a British Buhj^ct, whose husband wa«r shot dead at Johannesburg in Ddcrmber by a policeman nimed Jones, has been compensated by the Transvaal Gov^rnment. The matter has baen the sulj ct of a question in the House of Common", and it 'v believed that the Trinsvaal Government has now granted compensation in order to prevent British intervention in sup port; of the china which Mrs Edgar msde. The steamar Reichstag has left Naples conveying 15,000 rifles and 500 ton? of war material for tha Transvaal. The Brisbane Government has made, an offer to the Imperial Government to tquij. a corps of 250 mounted infantry and despatch it to South Africa for service in the ewnfc of war with the Transvaal. In the House of G>mnjon*,iMv Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Cilonie*. replying to Sir Henry Oampball Bannerman, leader of the Opposition said tint the Transvaal Legislature* franchise proposes as he learned they w?re confused, and could no 1 ; be entirely understood. A Renter's message states that 40.000 British subjects in South Africa have already ligned the petition to the Q leen, started in Capetown, praying that support may be given by the Imperial authorities to the outlanders' claims for reform? in the laws and government of tha Transvaal. The Oiitianders' Council baa passed a resolution condemning ithfl Hon W. P. Schreiner, Premier of Cipe Colony, for approving of pVisible so-called reform which; wag really designed to. retain she present unrepresentative system of the republic,