THE TRANSVAAL.
Capetown, March 14. In the course of a speech at Capetown Mr Cecil Rhodes referred to the situation in the Transvaal. He said he did not desire to follow a course of action that would lead to bloodshed, but he asked them not to sympathise with the Transvaal's barbarous policy. Alluding to the Uitlanders' grievances, ho said that when half-a-million people got rid of their taskmasters they would not support the Cape uuless it now showed a friendly disposition towards them. He was convinced that the union of kinship would eventually prevail. Pretoria, March 15. The Volksraad, despite President Kruger's appeal for urgency, coupled with the fact that the mouey had been offered, has postponed its sanction of the new loan till May, requiring that the details of the purposes for which the loan is required should be furnished.
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Waikato Argus, Volume IV, Issue 260, 17 March 1898, Page 3
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