SOUTH AFRICAN AFFAIRS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 168, 12 June 1902, Page 3

SOUTH AFRICAN AFFAIRS.

VARIOUS ITBMS.. JL PES Brass ASSOCIATION. JT London, June 10 Fifty BoJ officers at Barinuda attended the Uovei nor'a At Home and were delighted at the friendly atti ude of the officers attached to the garrison. The War Office grants a tp cil gratuity to troops in South Africa who strvcd more thin eighteen months an ! for additional fervice after the >i d or last year, The Daily Mail states that Mr Kruger ordtred the remsv.l of the Transvaal and Orange Free State flags from his vil'a at Utrecht. - The municipal and church clocks have ceased to chime at the Yo'ksleid. The barbed wire fences b*t»een the blockbousts within the late war ares have been removed, Sydney, June 10. Many weeks ago 300 Bushmen, failing to be included in South African ' contingent, cabled in tho nami cf their representative, Mr McMillan, offering their services direct to the Imp rial authorities. The men hut g about the city for weeks but no reply came I' transpires that Lord Kitchener replied that Lord Tullibardine would b< glad to accept them for the Scottish Hirse. The Post-1 Department sent the reply to Sir William McMi'lan, Melbourne. He was unaware of the Sydney movement and thinkir g it was a request for more men handed it to the Minister for Defence. The Ja'ter informed L rd Kitchener that the Government was raising its own co tingents and was uaable to recruit for others. Oo May 16th JLoid Tullibardine cabled urging the despatch of men. This also went to the wrong McMillan and a reply was s?nt th»t the Federal Go vernme*\ could do DO'hiog in the matter,] The 300 men were thus rdSbed cf a second chance of being at the front, June 11. The State Premier h«s cabled Lord Miloer on behalf of he people of Australia, asking him to we come u„ f Low citizens the brave men Mho wtre recently in arms agaicst us, and to expreag the conviction that their membership of the British Kmpire is an •yerlasting guarantee of fieidom. A GOLD TAX. ITALIAN MIQRANTS FOR SOUTH •AFRICA. Receive 112, 026 am. London, June 11. A v proclamation issued at Pretoria imposes a tax equal to ooe-tenth the value of gold produced, after deduction of cost of produ i n and sums allowed for txbau«tiot. <>f capital. Signor P i.etth, Italian Minister fir Foreign Aff is, is inquiring at Pretoria into the possibility of sending emigrants to South Africa. THE REGENT SKIRMISHES. FURTHER REBEL SURRENDERS. Received 12, 0.30 a.m. London, June 11. A conference of magistrates in Orange Colony discussed the question of the earliest date for the repatriation of Boeis. Skirmishes which have occurred were dud to the great area to be covered by the peace emissaries, and the difficulty of communicating early the news of peace to the isolated outposts. Three hundred and seventy s v?n Boers surrendered at Hope'oun, including 331 rebels. Received 12,0.32 a.m. London, June 11. Oppernnn's commando surrendered at Pretoria, being de'ighted at the peace. Mullens' commando, at Balmoral, gleefully threw down their rifles and insisted on shaking hands with t.h* British officers. They had a big singsong in the evening. Fouche represented the B>er Government whea Bezindechorst's and Olenaal's commandos surrendered at . AUt/al. Fouche, responding to Oolonel Tervan's complimentary welcome, e-x----preased the hope that " next time he would fight beside the British." MR. SEDDON 01 THE PEACE CONDITIONS. BUGGKSTED GBRMAN-AMERIOAN POLITIDO-TRADK ALLIANCE. Receired 12,0.11 a.m. London, June 11. Seven thousand Boers had surrendered up to Monday moroing. Mr Seddoo, in the course ft an interview at. Madeira, sud he would have preferred fiim>-r p?ace conditions. The Berlin newspaper Neu Preuss Krenz JSeitung urges Get many end Ameiica to co-operate to secure the maintenance of an " open door " policy in Ssuth Africe. Wellington, June 11. The following New Zealand troopers are on board the Papsnui, due in Wliogtou next Saturday:—lergfant T. Heather, Privates Candilb, Ewart, Fyffe, Hacket, Horning, McDonald, Quin and Stephens. The troopship Manil», which arrived at Albiny yis'erday with 300 men of the Seventh New Zwlard Mounted Infantry on board, wi'l call at Hohart and Sydney and then c /me direct to Weliogton. Palmebston North, June 11. The fi'st distribution of handsomely illustrated cards in commemoration ol the proclamation jf peace took ylace s<< OoUrge-striet s hoil ti-day, the ca-ds being pr,ti=e'ited by Mr Pirani, M.H.R. and ihe Rev. C. O. Hirper, Ohairm r of the School Connut,t<>e. The cards which «re to be distributed throuahon' •he Pilmei'Bto.t Nnrth >clv>ot rl s rict are rrofus. 1; illustrate! wi'h rep -e. sentit.ous .f p.. minent General , nv com, i, !>.,'•■•u'.rs of iui'-.ottant ' -t > r o r ~.