The Transvaal.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume II, Issue 17, 6 July 1899, Page 4

The Transvaal.

Mr J. H. Bofineyer, leaderMf the Dutch Party in the Capejßj semhly, and tli^e Hon. A. J. H»| holdt, Secretary for AgriculufMP at the request of the Cape MiiJßj try, ' Have undertaken to'proclMjj to Bloomfontein to confer $mj® two Transvaal Ministers' with «| view of bringing about a setflßl ment of the existing difficulty.*! A foremost member of tjKjj Rand declares that the conceHl sions proposed by Presideiß| Kruger at the Bloomfontein Coißj ference are the utmost thatCaßf be offered. Commandant Viljoen, a n'e i ß Rand member of the Raad, iH thanking the electors, declar^B that there was litile chance oiß settlement owing to the fermeipM created by the newspapers. WM Chamberlain's allusion to a f«9 tering sore was an insult to tlfl agitators, and had poisoned hifl mind, inclining him to war. Thß Boers were not to be intiinidateß into relinquishing their rights, fl Meetings at Durban, Petem maritsburg, Queenstown, anjM Hutterheim emphasized the resijM lutions passed at the Capeto-wjH demonstration. The speakesH warned Great H Britain againsfH countenancing intolerable .oppress sion and tyranny which lowerem her prestige and endangereM loyalty. ■ A Green Book issued in Pre« toria contains Reitz's despatch oil May 9th, denying the existence! of a suzerainty, and liaughtiljl declining to continue unnecessary discussion on the subject. M The Uitlanders insist oi equality of language rights, ancll they have some misgivings of Mrl Chamberlain's remark that repre-1 sentation under Sir A. Milner'sJ proposal would nofri exceed one-1 fifth of the Yolksraad". ;| Mr Hofmeyer recommends ajl compromise somewhat -short of a Sir A. Milner's franchise. 1 The outlook is graver. It is| feared that Mr Schreiner is dally-| ing with the matter. J Earl Grey, speaking at New-'l castle-on-Tyne, said that Preei-j dent Kruger would only yield toi force. The despatch of 10,000 1 troops would relieve the tension,! Mr Viljoen, in a letter to 'the'! burghers, said that in the event * of war, God and the Mauser rifle 1 would safeguard their iiidepen-'l dence. '- 1 President Kruger, i tKe "Raad, said that the executive * found the burghers 'firm-'as a rock; oir tlie ' independence question. . Ttfe'goldfielda had hitherto '"been ■ inadequately represented. Jo-J hanijesburg was , entitled to one t additional rejiresentative. A geile- } ral redistributing' scheme" 1 would' be resisted by the people. l The Vblksraad by 14 to 13 fa-i voured the doubling of represen- 1 tation in single member constitu- \ encies,, thus swamping the' Rand representation.,- ~ , '„' i