South Africa.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 226, 8 July 1902, Page 4

South Africa.

o London, July 3. The Natives of Vryheid and the Marcio districts are troublesome. Th 6 Boers have asked permission to accompany the British against them. The blockhouses are now all evacuated. A movement is on foot at Johannesburg to form Political Associations ; also a Volunteer Oorpi Association from regular regiments. Britain has informed the Nether, lands Government that the Boerg [swearing allegiance will be released |first, then other Boers will follow. !Foreigners will be transported to their various destinations at Britain's expense. Those paying their own passages may leave immediately. Foreigners will not be allowed to return to South Africa. July 4. Thirty-four signatures at the Cape favour the suspension of the constitution. Generals Botha, De Wet and Da la Eey have embarked on the Kanzleeland at Naples, and will reach Utrecht on August Bth. July 5. The Daily Mail states that the Cabinet have decided that it is unnecessary to suspend the Cape Constitution. Capetown, July 4. At a conference attended by 700 Transvaal and Orange Colony teachers, held at Johannesburg, under thepresidency of Mr Sargant, the recently-appointed Minister for Education, it was resolved to adopt the Cape Colony code. July 4. The British Government stores of hay, oats and compressed forage at Delagoa Bay have been burnt. The damage is £500,000. The stores were uninsured. Berlin, July 4. Thb German Boer League have given 60,000 marks towards repatriation and support of 321 German prisoners ; 80,000 marks for the support of necessitous Boer families and 80,000 for Boer widows and orphans.