The Transvaal.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume II, Issue 28, 1 August 1899, Page 4

The Transvaal.

Mr Chamberlain in reply to tbei of- New South Wales to send trooj the Transvaal, said that the Imp? Government highly appreciated^ loyalty and patriotism, and thati consideration . would be given to} offer if the necessity arises. The company holding the Tranf dynamite monopoly have offered | duction of 15s per case. The Vq raad favours the cancellation ofi monopoly. ' 'j Speaking at a luncheon gatherini the Midland Conservative Associitj Mr A. J. Balfour said he attntij the difficulties in the Transvaal to] refusal of the Boer Government cob cede to.the 1 Uitlanders equal ot leges with the terms and pledges' tamed in the Convention of 1881 the resources of diplomacy vr6vj, | effectual in untying th« knot, >\ .means would be adopted. He sji was impossible for freeborn Eag men to be permanently treated $ inferior race. Since the princip immediate representation had ' 4 conceded, " he hoped, despite id j tions to the contrary, that the 1 vaal would not be so ill-advised JS | withdraw, the privilege in detail.i Most English newspapers con Mr Balfpur's speech satisfactory! declare it "a plain but mome warning to President |£ruger. 'j! At a meeting of 7000 Uitlandji Johannesburg a resolutions/as { condemning the franchise^ibricei as inadequate, and demanding , j able reforms, imperially guarante The new franchise law as re< passed by the Yolksraad, has befi cially proclaimed, and will com* operation. t "f Within ten days 48,000 sigijj were received in Capetown, cttj equal rights for the IJitianderi.fi

In a recent Brsibane raffle o«o pnges was a pair^ of carrage tior was wpn by a ligfltship-keejier. ; j