The Transvaal.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume II, Issue 35, 17 August 1899, Page 4

The Transvaal.

Tketokia, Aug. 13. A British camp is being toroied near Langsnek,. The Transvaal has ordered the mobihsatioQ of the artillery reserves.

Aug. 15. The Volksraad has added to the < Gioundwet or fundamental law of the \ Tj aa^vaal an article compelling non- ' buighers and coloured people to co- • ©perate in the defence of the Republic. ' The militaiy authorities are instruct- 1; ing the leserve ai tilleryrjien in the use ' of the newest guns, and have also completed the transport and mobihsa- ' tion schemes.

Bloemfontein, Aug. 13. President Steyn has di&couraged the xesidents fiom selling horses and cattle to Great Biitain.

* Aug. 15. It is reported that the Orange Free State intends to send artillery to oc- , cvp t v the Valneens Pass, leading across , the Qnathlamba Mountains from Natal to the Free State.

* Melbourne, Aug. 14. The "War OMce is inquiring from the Government whether, in the event of war in the Transvaal, the colony will be able to supply foiage. The Government replied that large supplies are available.

London, Aug. 15. The Times' Pretoria correspondent states that Piesident Kruger consulted the Orange Free State, and as a re&ult a peaceful solution is anticipated.

Natal, Aug. 15. The Government have armourplatei and loopholed a train in readiness m case ot emergency.

Bismarck fought twenty eight duels, and in all these conflicts leceived but one wound. r j he Duchess of Cleveland is the sole survivor of Queen Yictona,s bridesmaids. , England had been free, from influenza foi 43 yeais when it re-appeared about ten years ago. W m aud glory have been costly things ; in Fiance. Between 1792 and 1815 sht.sacuficed one-half of the 4,500,000 soldiers < she sent to fipht her bpittles. War has 1 cost her in this century nearly '6,000,000-; lives. . j!,} The President of the French Republic .. receives a salary of £25000, and his allow; ,: ances of one kind or auother are as much/ moie, making altogether the sum <C £50,000.