South Africa.

Manawatu Herald, 2 August 1902, Page 2

South Africa.

PAUPERS NOT WANTED.

Intending emigrants will not be allowed to land at Delagoa Bay without depositing £2O. They must have a permit to enter the Transvaal, or must procure local employment within a week, otherwise they will be expelled.

LORD KI TCHENER’S DESPATCHES.

Lord Kitchener’s final despatch thanks Lord Milner for his unfailing sympathy and assistance, and expresses the army’s deep obligation to the Australian and other colonial Governments,

Lord Kitchener eulogises the officers especially General French, and recommends Major-General Bundle and others, including a large number of colonials.

IMMIGRATION AND LAND SETTLEMENT.

A Parliamentary Blue Book issued shows that the resolution of the Vereeniging Conference, in which the Boers agreed to surrender, was coached in a tone of bitter resignation. It emphasises the unprecedented suffering and disease in the concentration camps, and declares that the Kaffir tribes outside and inside the boundaries of the Republics were almost all armed. The resolution adds an expression of the Boers’ future hopes. Lord Milner, on 3rd June suggested the desirableness of enlarging the Legislative Councils, and seizing the opportunity of the improved feeling between the Dutch and the British to commence co-operation between the two races. Mr Chamberlain immediately approved the suggestion. The Governments of Natal and the Cape favoured assisted immigration. Lord Milner declares that judicious settlement of a largo number of colonists of the best class is of the first importance in the economic and peaceful development of the country. It must be on a large scale, otherwise it would be politically unimportant. He proposes a fixed rent of 4A per cent per annum ou the value of the property occupied, or a yearly instalment of purchase money of £5.15s per £IOO. Mr Chamberlain gives him a free hand in the matter. Lord Milner wishes to attract English and colonial settlers. He adds: —“ It is our interest to preserve the Boer as a farmer, and not as a large negligent landholder.” ’ RELICS OF THE WAR. Lord Kitchener has presented the Engineers’ Museum with statues of Mr Kruger, Generals Botha and Cronje, from Pretoria, and MrSteyn, from Bloenf mfcein. One Long ! ’nm lias Irion mounted on a bastion at G uivesand and aa jlhor at Woolwich Arsenal. AFRIKANDERS AND POLITICSGeneral Botha, speaking at Stellenbosch, advised the Boers to stop bothering about politics, and try to be happy in South Africa, because they had no borne elsewhere. . CONDUCT O'S THE’WAR. Mr Balfour (Prime Minister) has announced that the Government will appoint a commission of seven to investigate the conduct of the war. Lord Elgin will be chairman. The Commission will inquire' ipto the operations of the Intelligence Department prior to the war,, the transport service, the supply’ of men and munitions and equipment, and the operations until the occupation of Pretoria.

The majority of the Commission will be civilians, but the army and navy will ba represented. It will be unnecessary, Mr Balfour states, to inquire into matters subsequent to the occupation of Pretoria. BOER GENERALS. General Viljoeu has arrived at Capetown. . He states that the Boers at St. Helena are convinced that the leaders surrendered-only, after earnest prayer, and feeling that if they must ba British, as was now the case, they had bast bo calm, quiet, and obedient. The Afrikanders sought to co-operate in the constitutional promotion of the Dutch element equally with the general interests. General Botha counsels the avoidance of a cut-throat policy, and urges unanimous co-operation for the welfare of South Africa. Generals Botha, De Wet and Dela Rey visited Sir W. F. Hely-Hutchin-son (Governor of Cape Colony), Sir Gordon Sprigg 'Premier) and Mr T. L. Graham (Attorney-General), and then embarked for Europe. Boys from the Dutch school dragged their carriages to the docks. LORD KITCHENER. Lord Kitchener has been gazetted

Viscount Kitchener of Khartoum and tho VaaL AN OVERCROWDED TRANS*

PORT.

The steamer Drayton Orange has arrived at Albany from South Africa with two thousand Commonwealth troops. Measles broke out on'board a few days after the vessel left Durban, and pneumonia and pleurisy supervened. A hundred men are in hospital, halt the oases being serious. The Drayton " Grange performed record transport work, but achieved it at a grave and unjustifiable risk to human" life. The ship was recklessly overcrowded, and the men were berthed under the . most unsanitary conditions, which, in the opinion of medical inen, compelled the epidemic. On one troop-deck alone fifteen bun*, fired had to eat and live.

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