South Africa.

Manawatu Herald, 14 July 1903, Page 2

South Africa.

Lord Milner, High Commissioner of South Africa, has submitted to the South African Intercolonial Council a statement showing the allocation of the thirty-five million loanj- as follows .’—-Acquisition of the Transvaal and Orange Colony railways, fourteen millions; repatriation and compensation of burghers, five millions ; new railways, four millions; land settlement, three millions; public works, two millions; previous liabilities, six millions (including the first year’s deficit of the debts of late Republic, and compensation for Cape and Natal loyalists.) Many leading Dutch in South Africa, strongly disapproving the hostile attitude adopted by General Botha at the Heidelberg meeting, are starting an anti-Botha crusade. Mr Edwin Emmett has unreservedly withdrawn the allegation he made before the Transvaal Concessions Commission in 1900 that the agent of the dynamite concession bad bribed General Botha prior to the war.

Lord Roberts has expressed a desire that his appeal for the restoration of Boer Bibles containing family records, captured during the late war, shoufd be brought under the notice of the colonial troops who served in the war. Dr Jameson moved in the Legislative Assembly that the Government should establish cold storage depots in order to lessen the cost of living. The debate was adjourned. The Shipping trade at Capetown is at a standstill, owing to a strike of coloured dockers. Steamers are leaving port without discharging.