The Transvaal.

Manawatu Herald, 28 September 1899, Page 2

The Transvaal.

-» Shop fron") in Johannesburg hiva b"cn barricade!, and the excitement ; j grnw'nEf. A l<rg° number of foreigners have nude off s to G neral Joubert, the 0 mm^ndanf-Gonpral to assist tha Trjnsvail in 'he fHd. Thh United Irish Association at. Durbin ha* app aled to Great Britain to ri'l tbo crisis in th Q Timu«V)juil. The hdf battalion of 'ho Lanca* shire Regiment, which has been

<ta'ioaed at Lidynmitb, has bepn i -<3p» eh d 00 patrol duty along the he rivpr. A hiindrec Ope drivers have bePD -no led at Durban to assist th run por» c >rps. Th^ British are ready to re lay r.b.9 o'd r iiway over L iinj?'s N-<k i 'weny-f'ur hourß ghnuld the rai ■ w iv t.innfil at that, point be damaged A despatch from the British G >• ••■.mint, (lit, (1 th- 22 id instdn. it' b'^n redd in tb^ V )ik*raad. p.* «ul«n % K "Sf~"* w ; ll td-ddy submit to the R&ad thu despatch which it ia proposed to send in reply. Members of the Raad have declared that the British despatch is a device to gain time. They favour the sending of an intimation that any further movement of British troops to the frontier will be regarded as a hostile act. A strong British force has been sent to Glencoe to protect the coalmities. The Loyalists at Capetown recommend the suppression of the Transvaal agency at Brussels. They allege that Dr Leyds, the agent of the Republic to the Courts of Europe i is poisoning the minds of the Boers igain«t the British. Two-thirds of the Orange Free State troops will be required to watch the ISasntbs. The Boers at Sfcaflderton, a station on the tfatal-Transvaal railway, some fifty miles from the border, ate arming the natives and inciting thefli against the British. General Sir Rpdvers Buller, who has been appointed to the command in South Africa, is selecting hi* staff, h is expected that General BulW will have two divisions, con* niatiog of eight brigades, under his commmd.