CATTLE POSTS.
The correspondent of the “ Morn ing Post” at Johannesburg asserts {bat the cattle plague in Rh6d®sia originated from Australian imported cattle.
The Chartered Company’s Government has requested the Australian Government to sent experts and a staff to cope with the evil at the company's expense. Rinderpest is ravaging the ■ Barberton district, in the E.-.siern Transvaal. POLICIES AT THE CAPE. The Parliamentary and Financial Indemnity Bill has been read a second time in the Cape Assembly. The debate revealed the existence ,of sympathy between Sir Gordon Sprigg (Premier) and the Afrikander Bond. Mr Merriman, an ex-Minister and the leader of the Bond, indicating that he was anxious to work with the Premier. Sir Henry Juta, K.C., a Progressive member, moved in the Assembly that the nine seats now vacant ought be filled. The whole of the Progressives outside the Cabinet, except one member, supported the motion. The Ministry crossed the flood of the House, and assisted the Afrikander Bond members in defeating the motion by 41 to 23. The aciion of the Cabinet has caused a sensation.
The Progressives intends to introduce a Bill framed on the lines of laws operating in the Orange ILver Colony and the Transvaal for the suppression of sedition and seditions utterances. AN INDEMNITY BILL.
The Cape Government has introduced a. Bill indemnifying all acts committed under martial law. The Bond supported the measure. The debate was adjourned. RETURNING BOERS, A thousand B ier prisoners at Bermuda have mailed for South Africa. THE IRRECONCILABLES. Mr Reitz aspires to organise an irreconcilable party in Europe.
lAN HAMILTON AND THE V.C. Sir George White has stated that he endorsed General French's recommendation of Lieut,—General (then Colonel) Sir lan Hamilton for the Victoria Cross at the battle of Elandslaagte early in the war, but the authorities ruled that Colonel' Hamilton was too senior an officer to be granted the decoration.
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Manawatu Herald, 28 August 1902, Page 2
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313CATTLE POSTS. Manawatu Herald, 28 August 1902, Page 2
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