BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2614, 6 August 1881, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

[Reuter’s Aqency.j The Bradlaugh Difficulty. London, August 3. Mr Bradlaugh, it has transpired, will, on Friday, apply to the Police Court for a summons against the Police Inspector for illegally removing him from the House of Commons. It is announced that a Cabinet Council has been summoned for the special purpose of reconsidering the Parliamentary oaths question. Grant-Duff’s SuccessorMr L. H. Courtney, M.P. for Liskeard, will succeed Mr Grant-Duff as Undersecretary for the Colonies. The Caffres Object to Boer Rule. Capetown, August 3. News is to hand from Pretoria that, after the conclusion of the labors of the

Royal Commission, Sir Hercules Robinioq convened a meeting of the native chiefs of the Transvaal. His Excellency explained to them at length; .the decisions arrived at by the Royal Commissioners and Boer leaders for the future government of the Transvaal. The chiefs express themselves <3,is satisfied with the decisions, and threaten to resist the exercise of the Boers’authority in the country. Au Inglorious SurrenderTelegrams ore to hand from Pretoria announcing that the Royal Commissioners having received a communication from the British Government approving of the draft convention for the settlement of the Transvaal question, have now sigped the document, and left Pretoria for their respective homes. The formal transfer o& the government from the British officers to the Transvaal authorities will not, liowev’er, take place till Monday, the Bth inat.