The Transvaal.
Tha Transvaal Government imikiog rf quisitions fo: the 033 of railway rolling-stock. Three bodies of the Bjer forceare within 60 miles of the borderr,owa of Mafeking, British Becbuinaland.^ Martial law exists hi Johannes ■"burg. A headlong exodus from the cir> h ia progress. An outbreak of hostilities) 19 feared Many B>ers talk of rushing th Natal frontier. War is regarded us inevitable a Pi'e'.o.'ia.
Mr Bosken, the proprietor of thi •' L j adc>r," has fled to Natal.
Mr Moneypenny, editor of the Johannesburg " Soar " and corres. pondent of the London " Times," has also taken refuge in Natal. A, warrant is out against him.
0 her outlanders who are in danger of arrest have crossed the border.
A German corps of 900 men has been forovd in Johannesburg, and will co-operite with the Boer foroes.
It U believed that a nnj irity of the Raad at the recent secret sittings demmded that a declaration should be nnde of the Republic's inde* pendence. Newspaper correspondents, in de. spatches sent from Maritzburg, Natal agree that President Kroger has withdrawn his proposals for the granting of the franchise to out. lander^ oa the basis of a five years' qualification, and wishes to limit the scope of the proposed inquiry to the effect of a franchise with a seven years' qualification, , ->■> The «' Times " PretofH. eorres. pendent stites that lie Understands that the Transvaal Government lias declined to take part in the suggested conference at Capetown, but that a modus vivendi is still hoped for. English newspapers are becoming impatient of Boer tergitereation. Important despatches which have beeu received froth H3o%h Afrioa display a continnuons tension, The despatches have brought Mr Chamberlain, British Colonial Secretary, to London, to have a qont ference with tnrd Selborna, Parliamentary ' Secretary to " the Colonial Office.
The summoning of a Cabinet Council is belLved to be imminent.
A Reuter's despatch states -that the Transvaal Government has with* drawn its counter-scheme for the more liberal enfranchisement and representation of outlanders, bat haj accepted the idea of a conference at Capetown on subjects in dispute. -
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Manawatu Herald, 7 September 1899, Page 2
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344The Transvaal. Manawatu Herald, 7 September 1899, Page 2
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