SOUTH AFRICA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 80, 2 April 1903, Page 3

SOUTH AFRICA.

MUTINY. KB PRESS ASSOCIATION. Gape Towh, March 31. During a brawl in the Pretoria barracks, a corporal in the L*inster regiment, was ordered to the guard rrom. Twenty-two of his comrade?, fetching their lifl s, attempted to rescue him. Firing at the party that was ordered to arrest them, they wounded eighteen.

RAILWAY B&TRS. Oafs Tows, March 31. Under the new railway scheme, the rates on imported corn, grain, and floor carried from East London or Durban to Johannesburg, are reduced from 115s to 70s, and from Datagoa Bay from 100 ato 60s. The rates on meat are reduced 25 per cent.

BOTHA RKPODIATRS WORKING WITH THE BOND. Received 2,0.43 a.m. Gaps Town, April 1. ' General Botha when interviewed at Johannesburg hotly repudiated the suggestion that the Beer Generals were working with the Afrikander Bond. BLOEMFONTEIN CUSTOMS PROPOSALS GERMANY EXCITING HERSELF. CRUSHING REIORI BY THE TIMKB. Received 8, 1 a.m. London, April 1. The Timet, in i's first leading article, taunts GeYmany with exciting herself over the Bloemfontein Customs Conference, and recall* tho disregard shown by Germany to other nations' opinions wrth regard to the German new tariff. It says that German aie already manipulating public opinion and fulminating threats of reprisals, and adds that tbe Bloemfontein proposals are merely the natural, though perhaps tbe obj'ctionabl , working of British colonies in tbe direction of fiscal independence under the influence of a prevailing sentiment of Impeiial solidarity. The Times unhesitatingly declares that the British nation welcomes most cordially the spirit of the Bloemfontein preferential treatment proposals, and would be sorry to relinquish the hope that they constitute an important step towards Imperial co-op-ration and unity.