THE TRANSVAAL.
[united press association], (by electric telegraph—copyright). Pretoria, June 16. A meeting of burghers at Baksburg carried a resolution stating that the extension of the franchise to the uitlaoders was impossible, seeing that the burghers numbered only 40,000 and the uitlanders 50,000. June 17. Alarming statements have been made about a number of quickfiring guns in the possession of Boers. Women and cbildren are now leaving Johannesburg. President Kruger has announced that the reformers would not be excluded from the franchise. Capetown, June 17. The despatches ef Sir A. Milner and Mr Chamberlain created a profound impression at the Cape. There are great complaints at Kimberley of the military's unpreparedness, and the Government is denounced for delaying the delivery to the volunteers of the new guns ordered by the previous Ministry. London, June 17. Three batteries have been ordered to Natal. They will reach there in August. SirH. Campbell-Bannerman, speaking at Ilford, said the action of the Transvaal Government did not justify war or preparations for war, Pacific pressure would suffice to settle the difficulty.
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Waikato Argus, Volume VI, Issue 450, 20 June 1899, Page 2
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