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Manawatu Herald, 14 January 1902, Page 2

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The Transvaal.

A CONSPIRACY THAT FAILED

The correspondent of the “ Daily Telegraph ” states, with reference to the plot discovered at Johannesburg, that the conspiracy was hatched by three hundred foreigners, who had the assistance of Commandant Kemp. A thousand men were ambushed outside the town, They proposed to treacherously murder members of the Rand Rifles, capture and kill Lord

Kitchener and Lord Milner, burn Johannesburg and flee to the mountains, hoping to compel Great Britain to sue for peace. Sixty arrests were made.

AN APPEAL TO VOLUNTEERS. The Government has appealed to 9396 infantry volunteers to replace the volunteers serving in South Africa.

MOVEMENTS 0F THE ENEMY. General Botha is concentrating in the vicinity of Mongoma; and Commandant Dannhauser at Babanango. Their combined forces are estimated at twelve hundred and fifty men, with three guns. , RUMOURS OF SURRENDER, The burghers are showing an increasing inclination to surrender. It is rumoured at Standerton that there will be a general surrender of the Transvaal Boers on the 15th inst, VALUE OF BLOCKHOUSES. The extension of blockhouses is giving Major-General Bruce Hamilton a firmer grip of the eastern Transvaal. SPEECH. BY LORD MILNER. Lord Milner, speaking at a banquet at Johannesburg, said the situation was steadily improving, ani hopeful feeling abounded. The bursting of storm clouds had cleared the air, and only inconceivable folly or misarrangement ''would lead to a repetition of disaster, though some persons were striviug to preserve the old political dualism in substance if not in form. Despite pro-Boers Britain was firmly determined not to be cheated out of the results of the war. Lord George Hamilton, speaking at Ealing, said news received by the Government was satisfactory, and. the war was rapidly closing. AN ENGAGEMENT WITH DE WET. On Wednesday Colonel De Lisle engaged Christian De Wet’s concentrated force twenty miles south of Heilbron, shelling the enemy heavily. Major-General Elliott, who cooperated in the engagement, drove De Wet towards the main line of railway. Commandant Vanniokerk, with three hundred followers, crossed the railway at Roodeval during the night and joined De Wet. Fifty Boers attacked three blockhouses in an attempt to cross the Heilbron-Frankfort blockhouse line, but were repulsed, STOCK FOR THE CAPE. Victoria wants to supply a share of the cattle asked from Queensland for South Africa. The Minister for Agriculture has cabled to Lord Milner that Victoria can find medium young breeding cattle at from £3 to £4 per head. / MISCELLANEOUS. A concentration camp to hold 2000 persons is being constructed at Port E^zabeth.' The Government is purchasing vast tracts of land in the south-east pf Orange River Colony. Colonel Allenby has recovered the second gnn captured from Colonel Benson in the Brakenslaagte reverse. Major McMicking captured twelve Boers hiding on an island in the Vaal river.

Captain Tremayne captured Fieldebrnet Breytenbash single-handed. A crowded Peace Society’s pro-Boer meeting had been held at Derby. The promoters having retired, a vote of confidence in the Government was carried.

Lord Milner at the Johannesburg banquet eulogised the common sense patriotism of Canada and Australasia, where there were no pro-Boers rendering disservice to the Empire. He emphasised the claims of loyalists in South Africa. It was useless to threaten or to wheedle the enemy or to fidget about negotiations. They ought to keep clemency for surrenderors. Latest. COLONIAL SURGEON HONORED. Lord Kitchener has asked Colonel Williams, who did such good service as Burgeon-General of the Australasian Medical Corps, to return to South Africa. VOLUNTEERS. Volunteers are indisposed to respond to replace those in South Africa at one shilling per day, while the Yeomanry receive five shillings. DEATH. Private W. H. Stock, 6fch New Zealanders, died of enteric.