After the War.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7320, 13 June 1902, Page 3

After the War.

(l)_v .Electric Telegraph — Copyright.) (for Press Association) Loxwjs, Juno 12. Tha Government is engaging nino ti-aiis!i-jr;a tor three months' service to ov.-ry Jsoer prisoners back to South Africa. I'.nch will carry 00 ouicers and 1550 lUi-11. Tho vessels that hove been used to Iruinport h.rses will no; ba accepted to c.i.ry tr>'ops. Is 13 considered in London that the n.-iv form of tax on gold in the Transvaal will favour the miners. The surrenderors total 9,310. Commandants Vanzyl and Vanderniervo huve arrived at Vryburg, and wjlcomod peace.

Commandant Kemp surrendered at Mufeking. He was adverse to surrender, but finally yiolded to tho views of tho majority. He says that some of tho 15oara might have continued the struggle for a couplo of years, though with no certainty of success. Food was plentiful in Westorn Transvaal, but exhausted in the Eastern. Ho is quite satisfied with the settlement, and said there would be no bitterness. lie predicts harmony between the two races.

Two hundred and nine Cape rebels have surrendered at Cradock.

A proclamation issued at Capo Colony accepts surrenderors for another mouth, and thoso (ailing to surronder within the time tixed will bo subject to tho extreme penalty of the law.

Mr Chamberlain, presiding at the Corouation Club dinner, in the course of a speech, said the country now enjoyed peace at terms honourable to both panics, the lines we ourselves had traced lit the outset alone affording tho basis of permanent settlement. Britain had been very generous in everything relating to personal and private matters, but had yieldod nothing of substance, and tho country may well bo delighted at the way ia which tho terms had been accepted. It was o good augury that our Jate opponents, aficr doing their best to maintain their independence, were ready to loyally accept the altered conditions, and co-operate in developing an era of unparalleled prosperity.

Lord Kitchener reports that Vantonder's and Yaubeeven's commandos, with 403 rifles, surrendered on Monday at Ventotsdorp,

Afterwards, at a cnmp concert the burghers sang " Auld Lang Syno " and " God Sr«.vo the King."

Further surrenderors from Western Transvaal arrived with 107 rifles and 53,000 rounds of ammunition ;at Ermelo with 303 ritle-i, and at Zoutpansberg with 150, makiog a total of 3671 arras on the 9th and 10th.

Tho rebels who surrendered at Cradoek were handed over to the civil authorities.

Major-General Featherstonhaugb has succeeded Lieut.Genoral Lytfeltou in command of ;ho forcasin Natal.

Licut.-General Lyttelton has gone to Natal, preliminary to succeeding Lord Kitchener.

Wellington, June 12.

The Governor has bom advised that I'rivttto Evans, of Dunedin, 13 dangerously ill cf enteric fever, at Pretoria.

.Received June 13, at 9.8 a.m.

London; Thursday

Viscount Kitchener inspected and thanked the National Burgher Scouts and promised they should return tc their farms as soon ns possible.

The Scouts enthusiastically cheered Yiicouat Kitchener and Lord Milner and peace.

Tho scouts and surrenderee aro on amicable terms.

The Middloburg surrenderors went to tho reiugees' camp and arranged an impromptu ball with tho Scouts and refugees.

Loxdo>*, Thursday.

Lord Salisbury, in congratulating the Hertford Militia on their return from the war, said that i£ we wore disappointed with regard to the duration of peace and in the years not distant there should bo a demand for action on the part o£ English soldiers, I am afraid I cannot comfort you by saying the militia can be spared.

15eyers' commando of 152 surrendered at Petersburg, and Hans Grobelaars' 318 at Ermelo.

•iSoyots admitted getting ammunition through Portuguese territory.

Large numbers have surrendered at Eeitz aud they wore, nrarly all armed with Lce-Metfords. The}' exprersed resentment at tho French and German Press encouraging the hope of protracting Ihe war. A fund lias been started at Johannesburg to rebuild Pc Wet's and Do hi Key's farm-house".