The Transvaal.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume II, Issue 21, 15 July 1899, Page 3

The Transvaal.

Immense quantities of war stores are b&ing despatched te South Africa. The Admiralty has provisionally lecursd two 1 steamers aocomodating 1300 troops, Tlfe Nationalist members of the House : of Commons ara protesting againsf supplies of Bi£m Duaa buiiata being, seat to

I (South Africa. The British crtfisw Doris and the gw^ boat Widgeon have arrived at Lorsnw ! MaTquez, Delagoa Bay, Sir G. W. B. Russell, ex-member « > several liberal Ministries. a'Mie'jaing 4 I meeting of Liberal forwards in London, dealt with the Transvaal tiouble. H{» 1 reference to the British defence <snd defeat at Majaba Hill -was greetad with cheers. Mr Chamberlain states that it is im possible to attempt to define trie effect o$ the Transvaal proposals. Appnently" they will have no immediate effect o» alien representation in the first Yolk*-* raad. Mr Schreiner, the Cupe Premier, and Mi* Hofmeyer, leader of the Afrikander Party,, have interviewed Sir Alfred MiJner ha reference to affahs in the Transvaal. Heater's Agency has corrected the ii* port of the Jagersfontein accident. Fotsyth and ten natives, not Australians* •were killed. Mr Hofmeyer, tin being interviewed, said that the Boers have no illusion! about the result of a war. They do noi expect much assistance from the Afrikanders. The merchants have asked 1/^ Reitz, in the event of war, not to turn thff fort against Johannesburg. A reply w«f promised. The Uitlanders' Council resolved that the proposals were delusive and utterly inad'ecfuate. All the South African newspapers are supporting Sir A. Milner, and msi3t that guarantees should be conceded, and that rights continue unimpaired/ The powder magazine at Kagatolund has exploded, killing four Boer artillery" men. The Victorian Commandant suggest* that Victoria should co-opeiate with the other colonies in sending a contingent t* the Transvaal. Besides a detachment of Mounted Infantry, the Queensland Government hay* offered a machine gun section for th* Transvaal. Mr Chamberlain has cabled accepting the offer of troops, if the necessity arises. Sir Rupert Clarke has offered for acliw service if the Australian troops are sent \9 j the TiansVaal. The British Press at the Cape are violently protesting against tbV Afrikandwf Bund dictating the Imperial policy. Mr Hofmeyer addiessing a Capetown! Bund meeting declared that it would b$ * sbame and a curse to declare trar owisj' to a difference over Sir A. Milner and the Transvaal schemes-. Thirty machine-gfln carriages hay* been debpatched to the Cape. Another field battery, making a fifth, is undw 1 orders to proceed to the Cap*. The Times applauds Queensland's gen* erous patriotic offer of troops. Sir T. A. Brassey, speaking at Bournemouth, expressed implicit confidence i* Sir A. Mifner and his attitude on Tramvaal questions. Fifteen hundred men from Sydney hfiT» alreaiy volunteered for the TronavaaL