The Transvaal.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume II, Issue 7, 13 June 1899, Page 1

The Transvaal.

President Kruger, at the termination of the Conference, acknowledged that Sir A, Milner's attitude throughout had been one of friendly suggestion rather than of demand. He expressed the hope that in future they would understand each other better. It is explained that the suggestion made by Sir A. Milner that the question of indemnity claimed by the Transvaal in connection with the Jameson raid be referred to arbitration, was not intended to apply to the difference of opinion on the subject between Britain and the Transvaal and the Chartered Company. President Kruger refused Sir A. Milner's suggestion that failing the granting of the franchise the Outlanders be given partial control of the goldiields administration, v dent Kruger asserts that Sir A. Milner's enfranchising proposals would result in the immediate overmastering of the old burghers and not tend to the fusion of races. Sir A. Milner was accorded an enthusiastic reception on his return to Capetown. The publid expressed their admiration for his firmness, and of Mr Chamberlain's action in not interfering with Sir A. Milner's freedom. The Orange Volksraad has passed a resolution endorsing President Kruger's action. The Volksraad of the Transvaal, in approving President Kruger's attitude, asked that the President's franchise proposals should ba added to the Bill, and the peoplt be shortly consulted on the whole question. An anxious feeling prevails in Johannesburg. A mass meeting of Outlanders at Johannesburg, adopted resolutions thanking Sir A. Milner- for the proposals put forward by him at the conference with President Kruger, and declared that the irreducible minimum of their demands was that no settlement would be satisfactory short of equal rights to all the white inhabitants in the Transvaal. All Rand stocks have slumped. The English newspapers urge the Government to insist on Sir A. Milner's proposals. Some go^to the length of advocating sending anultimatum to the Transvaal. •' The public generally, however, do not desire to precipitate a crisis. The Continental papers are 4 reviewing the situation largely favourable to Britain. The FrenoU ' press .is critical and hostile, The * Ame.rican journals adopt a friendly tone. r ' f .