CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

Manawatu Herald, 15 July 1899, Page 2

CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

♦— The Transvaal.

The Outlandprs' Council ha? rpsolved that tha Tronsvaal L ghla tnre's franchise proposals are delusive and utfrrly inauequafce. A powder magazine has blown up, killing five Boer artillerymen. The output of erold from the Wif.w.rt< nrand go'dfiekla for the month of June was 445,758jz?. This beats all previous records for field. The Hon W. P. Schreiner, Primp Minister of Cap? Colony, and Mr J. FT. Hnfmoyr. Ladder of the Afrikander party, have had a intervi w w'ih Sir Alfred Milner (Governor of the colony and High Commissioner for British South Afn'ct) with reference to affairs in the Transvaal. MrHofmeyr, in ao inte;view, said the Boers had no il!us'nn>' ahont the r«pu!fc of a war with Givnt Britain. They dil not rxp 3 ct much assistance from Afrikanders outside of }ho Ec puh'ic. A' l of the 8-iuth African new-'* napqro, with the exemption of the Boer orean=» in the Transvaal, arp <"ipporfcin£ 'he demands made by 3ir Alfred Milner at the B'of mfontein conf-renoe. The various journals also in^i't that guarantees shall bo »iven by the Transvaal Government thai; when righ'a are enncedpd to the outlanders th?y shall continue unimpaired, Mr Chambe lain, S-orepary of State for the C--»!onis<», S'iy3 that it ip I'roposMb'e dpfine the effect of the Transvaal legislature's franchise prnposal", but apparently they would have no immpdiafe effect on Jhe r?pre'pn^tion of outlanders in thp Fir«t Volksraad. Immpnia q-mntitieß of military c torpj» arp s f ill bfling daspatched to Sou'h Africa. The Admiralty has provisionally soon red two steamers accommodating 1800 troops. In addition to its offer to equip 250 mounted infantry for service in South Africa, the Queensland Go vernment has intimated its readinesß to send a machine gun sqnad. Mr Chamberlain has "ent a cablegram on behalf of the Impei ial Go vernment accept'ng the Queensland Governrapnt'B offer of troops for South Africa should the necessity arise. The War Office has despatched thirty carriages for machine gnns to the Capp. Another field battery U under orders tn bfi gent to the Capp, making the fifth of this class available for service there.