South Africa.

Manawatu Herald, 29 July 1902, Page 2

South Africa.

SENTENCES ON REBELS.

The Royal clemency has been exercised in the direction of judicially revising the rebels’ unexpired sentences and fines still unpaid. This is unanimously praised as a further step towards the pacification of South Africa.

Two hundred and twenty-nine of Commandant Pouche’s rebels have received nominal sentences at Cradoek, involving disfranchisement for life. WORKERS FOR THE RAND.

The Johannesburg correspondent of “ The Times ” suggests utilising transports for the bringing of a hundred thousand unskilled English workers to the Hand, granting them a free passage, inasmuch as initial experiments with white labour have convinced the mine managers that it will be a success.

UNDE IRABLE IMMIGRANTS. Mr Chamberlain, in contradicting the rumour that. Dr Lf-ycls returns to South Africa, said that, with the exception of born Afrikanders, nobody who fought or worked in any way against Britain would bo allowed to return to South Africa. A WARNING TO EMIGRANTSLord Onslow has informed an intending emigrant that land in South Africa is at a pr miura, and that there arc more settlers there already than Lord Milner is able to place on the land at present. ■ RELICS OF THE AVAR, •

The London Corporation has accepted from Lord Kitchener gifts comprising a Boer “ Long Tom ” and Mr Kruger’s fully-equipped oxwaggon. REPATRIATION OF THE BOERS.

A thousand Boers are being repatriated weekly, and the number will soon be increased to two thousand. All will be home by November.

The Government is selecting prominent Boer agriculturists to tour the colonies and study scientific methods of farming, with a view to adopting them and imparting them to their neighbours. The first party —Mr Wooste, of Orange "River Colony, with his wife, and two others —under Captain Godson, 'will start for Canada and Australia in a week, and a second party, from Ceylon, will start for Australia and New Zealand in August. LABOUR ON THE RAND. A hundred disbanded irregular troops who' are unemployed have refused an offer of five shillings a day to work in the mines. TROUBLES IN RHODESIA. There has been a growing feeling in Rhodesia against the South African Chartered Company’s management since the death of Mr Cecil Rhodes, and a local movement is afoot for annexation to the Transvaal, or for establishing Crown colony government, pending the federation of South Africa.