CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS

Manawatu Herald, 19 August 1899, Page 2

CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS

The Transvaal.

The Boer Government has ordered Mauser rifles to be disturbuted to burghers in exchange for Martinis. A great scare exists in Pdfcoria. It is believed that the country burghei'3 condemn extreme measures. The Government has purchased many mules, and has completed con ditional purchases of large quantities >f stores and provisions. An anxious feeling parvades the Band. The Volksraads have adopted an article denying that a legal tribunal to empowered to test the legality of their laws. Lieutenant-General Sir F. W. E. S l . Forestier- Walker, in command >f fcbe western district, and who has seen much service in South Africa, nait* forthwiih to succeed M-ij-ir General Sir W. F. Butler as com minder of the British troop 3in South Africa. A Cape Blue Bjok has revealed the fact that Sir W. F. Butler 1 * viewa ara at variance with those of Sir Alfred Milner. Sir W. F. Butler, will sucoeed Sir Frederick Forestier-Walk'r in. .vimmand at D^vonport, the head quarters of the western district. The " Times " sUte3 that ten thousand regular troop 3 and en thousand yolunteirs are available it the camp formed at Laing's NVk and in Natal, irrespective of any reinforcements that may be obtained, from India. The "Star," of Johannesburg, states ihat the Transvaal Governinqnt refused to join in tha proposed inquiry into the franchise question because it had prppared a new scheme of qualification aud representation. Recruiting for mounted and other

f jrcea is proceeding enthusiastically it Capetown, Grahamstown and Kimberlcy. and uleo at other placesin Hriti.-h S->uth Africa. Twenty thousand troops of a)! a«"m a , with the nfceasary store?, an ready to leave England in a wetk. The •' Standard " and the " Mornins; P)st" say that the majority of the commandants in the Transvaal are against war. The •• Timf-8 " Pre'oria r correspondent states that the ultitnaUad >p ! ,ion of Sir A'fw-d Milner's pro pomls by the Transvaal Government is considered certain. The "Duly Telegraph f> statethat President Eruger is in a state of pitiable indecision.