The Transvaal.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 207, 24 May 1902, Page 1

The Transvaal.

London, May 20. Mr Wessels, one of the Boer delegates, stated, at Amsterdam, that any arrangements sanctioned by ex-President Steyn and Mr Schalk Burger would be binding on ail the Boers, while those who stood out would be justly regarded as outlaws.

Mr Runciman, in addressing bis Cimonstown constituents, said that five members of the Government majority were ready to vote to maintain the Bond. The prospect of the Afrikander party’s return to power would be an unthinkable calamity, and the Imperial Government ought, on restoring the Constitution, to introduce a more equitable system of redistribution. May -21.

Commandant Von Hcerden was killed whilst unsucessfnlly attacking Aberdeen.

The Horning Post’s Pretoria correspondent says that a number of irreconcilables, principally Free Staters, are at Vereeniging. The Transvaal minority mostly favours immediate peace, and those knowing Britain’s power show a determination that may influence the majority.

The crops have boon reaped in many districts by the* troops, thus increasing the enemy’s straits in regard to food. The irreconcilables are relying on Britain nearing the end of her purse, but the Majority are better informed.

Advices received in Holland state that the majority of delegates at Vereeniging are personally interested in prolonging the war, and that the struggle will die out without conference or treaty. Mr Bennett Burleigh, the war correspondent, says that the discussions are acrimonious.

The “Times” states that Me Kinney, Jack Hindon’s subordinate, has surrendered.

Steyn, Wessels, Muller, Cellir, and Hertzog are the chief opponents of peace. De 'Vet is more

pacific. Hundreds of tons of goods are warehoused at Hamburg and New York ready for shipment to South Africa directly peace is proclaimed. May 22. Mr Seddon will address the Seventh New Zealand Contingent at Newcastle, which is mustering 300 men, on the eve of their departure for the colony. Mr Bennet Burleigh has telegraphed a fact to a relative for communication to the Daily Telegraph,- The public interprets this ns a circuitous announcement that the British terrae have been accepted, and that peace is in sight. The Times says that a pessimist like Mr Chamberlain is hopeful, though not sanguine, ami fears that the irreconcilables will wield a disproportionate power for evil. Iteuter’s Pretoria correspondent stated on Wednesday that, in accordance with the April arrangement, the six delegates who were chosen at the Vereeniging conference, consisting of membeis of the two Governments with De Wet, De la Key, and eight secretaries, arrived at Pretoria on Sunday, and were lodged in a house next to Lord Kitchener’s.

The Daily Telegraph states that the delegates include Schalkburger, Botha. Smuts, Meyer, and Beyets. A strict censorship is being observed over messages from Pretoria.

The Standard says that if the delegates seek to bargain for a compromise relying on tbc results of a protracted disputation, they are doomed to disappointment. The wisest thing is to make that fact clear at the outset. Albany, May 22. The Anrania has arrived with 1500 troops, sixty-seven of whom are New Zealanders. It is an-

ounced that the latter will require financial assistance by the time Sydney is reached.