The Transvaal

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume II, Issue 24, 22 July 1899, Page 3

The Transvaal

The Voiksraad, With five dissentients, nceiletl seven years prospective andietroeetive hanclnse Piesident KrUger supiited tbis pioposed on the grounds of >nes f y and nghtenusness, and said that it mid not hnpenl independence, while it raid gain the applause oi the whole world. General Joubeit concurred. The "Times" says that the crisis has ided, and that Mr Chambeilain appeals i have fully achieved his object. It is belies ed that it ib intended to incise the goldfields representation to me, including Berbevton. Mi Sclneiner, replying to Sir Gordon pngg, depiecated a discussion on the latter at the piesent juncture. Mr Rhodes has arrived at Capetown. le received an immense ovation. Deleates from all parts of South Afiica, in' ladin» Dutch, presented an address of 'elcome. Mr E,hodes, in his speech, de'ared that Great Britain was determined ot to encourage the nebulous ideas of tepubhnins. The 'granting of equal ights was the only solution of the diffiulty in the Transvaal. Both parties in England were tumbling 6ver one another n zeal, to prove which were the greater mpenalists. He eulogised the Emperor >f Geimany, and said that he was confienttbatLoid Kitchener would soon find nough money to complete the KhartoumJganda, lailway. Ttie Times states that the Transvaal i'tll in&ibts on high property qualifications Mid natuiahsation under vexatious conditions. Lagos and the Malay States have each offeied to send 300 N soldiers to South Africa It is reported in Pretoria that the Gov-' ernment have arranged to cancel 'th* dynamite monopoly. 'ihe franchise has fittftlly' pa?s«T the liaads and comes /into operation aa soon! ** gazetted. It empowers' the Executive tc > dispense with naturalisation conditions ™ the event of service rendered the counkj» and facilitates the enfranchisement of

alien youths. The loyalist people of Johannesburg and Capetown wo disappointed at Great Bntain's acceptance of a compromise which they fear will prove illusory. Natal, however, is move satisfied with the result.