The Transvaal.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume II, Issue 15, 4 July 1899, Page 3

The Transvaal.

The Eighth Company of Royal Engineers, stationed at Chatham, have been ordered to the Cape. Large quantities of railway material are being sent out with the troops. Mr Woodford Leonard, a wellknown Johannesburg barrister, and 'brother to the leader of the Transvaal ' National Union, is visiting Melbourne. In an interview, he said that, if England declared war'every Boer will fight to the "death. There will be a civil war throughout South Africa directly the first shot is fired.

The Cape is full of secret agents of the Transvaal. He did not think that the Boers would attack Johannesburg or the mine?, except as a last resource. All the blacks would assist England against the Boers. The Uitlanders' council claim full citizenship in the Transvaal, simultaneously making a redistribution of seats. Mr Chamberlain's speech has caused great commotion at Pretoria. Africanders are leaving Makefing to join the Transvaal artillery. Thousands of residents are signing a monster petition in favour of the concessions to the Uitlanders, at all centres of population. Enthusiastic meetings in support of the petition were held at Grahamstown, Port Elizabeth | and East London. The Germaus and Americans in the Transvaal have appealed I to their respective Consuls for a force of Marines to protect their property in the event of hostilities. Sir A. Miluer, speaking at the City Club, Capetown, said that if troublous times were experienced during the next two years, he hoped the colonists would remember thatlie tried to do his duty.

Snoring, it is claimed, can bo prevented by a rubber webbing, which is fastened under the nose, and keeps the mouth shut. The inventor of the contrivance, has applied ?dr a patent. " A Dead Man's Diary," a glimpse into futurity, 9d at Cbawshaw's