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The Transvaal. PEACE NEGOTIATIONS. Reuter’s Pretoria correspondent, writing on April 19th, states that Mr Steyn is in a serious condition. _ He is suffering from creeping paralysis and a malady of the eyes. At the first conference between Lord Kitchener and the Boer delegates, the latter demanded fthe independence of tho republics, promising to raze the forts audio concede a {liberal franchise to the ontlanders. The British Government refused this, and also a request for the retention of arms. It offered generous assistance to build farmhouses and restock farms, and raised no difficulty with reference to pardoning banished leaders. The delegates pleaded for leniency for rebels, while recognising the justice of disfranchising them. It is believed they were assured that the difficulty was not instiperable. The Government declined to fix a date for granting responsible government, but promised it would be granted at the earliest possible date.Mr Steyn’s attitude is stated to be as fanatical as ever. He persuaded the Transvaalers to make a truculent demand for independence.
General De Wet at first was sullenly obstructive, but afterwards became more conciliatory. Generals De la Rey and Botha expressed their willingness to obey the Transvaal Government. Mr Steyn and General Schalk Burger, the actingpresident, insisted on consulting the burghers. FIGHT BETWEEN NATIVES AND BOERS. Natives whose kraals the Boers had burned discovered and attacked a Boer laager at Schieper’s Nek, in the south-eastern Transvaal. They killed thirty Boers, being the majority of a commando, and handed three prisoners over to the British at Vryheid. Latest. BRITISH OPERATIONS. British columns which moved north from the Lindley line captured 27 Boors. Colonel Colenbrander took 100. General lan Hamilton, after clearing the districts east of Harts’ River, moved west with Colonel Archfort, capturing 357 and all wagons and stock of Commandos in that district. Colonel Park captured 30 eastern Transvaalers. RETURNED TROOPERS. The troopship Columbian, which arrived at Sydney on Wednesday, brought a number of returning troopers, including forty New Zealanders. AUSTRALIAN REMOUNTS. In reply to enquiries, Lord Kitchener has informed Mr Deakin that the Remount Department has ceased to buy Australian horses for South Africa only on account of the inferior class of animals imported by private speculation. If good horses were sent he would instruct the authorities to purchase them.
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Manawatu Herald, 15 May 1902, Page 2
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379CONDENSED CABLEGRAM'S. Manawatu Herald, 15 May 1902, Page 2
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