The Transvaal.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume II, Issue 32, 10 August 1899, Page 3

The Transvaal.

- .<: London, Aug. 7. The first battalion of the Manchester 'Regiment, stationed at Gibraltar, has been ordered to the Cape. 1 The Times states that the Capetown putchmen, though sympathising with ""{h'e Transvaal, will refuse to fight, fearing forfeiture of their farms. A Keuser's, despatch says that President Kruger informally intimated to Sir A. Milner his willingness to accept a friendly suggestion likely to lead to i a settlement of the trouble. An impression prevail* that a Commission of Enquiry will be accepted by the Transvaal if it is not regarded as a , precedent to Great Britain's right to interfere.

Aug. 8. Mr Chamberlain in a despatch to President Kruger offers, when the Franchise Commission is settled, that i he will confer with reference to the Other points being submitted to arbitration, provided that they are not 'foreign arbitrators.

Pretoria, Aug. 7. i The Bham treason revelation* have created a profound sensation in the Transvaal. Ait American negro in Johannesburg, .producing, a passport,, remonstrated I wjfch the police for their insults. A [/iuounted coastable thereupon struck I hjiji, and dug at him -with his spur.

The Tiunian heart beats on an ayerage seventy times p'ertoinute, 4,200 timea ,an hour, 100,800 t^rnes a day, and 36,792,000 , times in trie course of the year, so that the 'heart tfipfCri' ordinary man eighty je&r» of 1 age,) aifbetten 3.000,000,000 times.