South Africa.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 233, 24 July 1902, Page 4

South Africa.

London July, 20. Codf ami cipher telegrams will in future be admitted toali parts of South Africa. There are2B,ooo children attending Ihe Government schools in the Orange Liver and Transvaal (.denies, including 17,200 who still reside at the concentration camps. Lord Onslow has stated that shareholders in the Netherlands railway are not entitled to compensation for damages caused by the war, the company having, through the directors, organised plans to damage the British, but the position occupied by the debenture-holders is different. ; Tim Public Accounts Committee ■report that £780,000 was paid during a single year’s operations an South Africa fur the loss and ■capture of oxen and waggons. The is of opinion that the !system of taking vouchers h * 'supplies in the held was very | imperfect. ! July 21. 1 The Tones’ Johannesburg corrcs-;pondt-nt says tb it toe great scarcity jof na’ive labour is loam y felt, and I that the employment ol unskilled | white labour for surla.ee wo. k at ithe mmes at os a .<1 food may : possibly become permam nt if the jemployois are ab.e to .separate the dwhites and blacks. They are (making efforts to prove that this is ■jeheaper than native labour, in view ■of the loliabiiity of the whites. Aliuny, .Inly 21. The Britannic arrived to-day. 1 She brought over 1000 returned ! troopers, chiefly men of the [Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, and iTenth New Zealand Contingents. 1 duly 22. j Ten thousand troops have sailed from South Africa to Great Britain during the last week. Lieutenants R. Dumarez and J. Hamer, of the New Zealand Mounteds, have sailed for England. Wellington, July 22. The Acting Premier has received . the following cable message from Colonel Davies, dated Albany, Monday;—“The Britannic arrived hero yesterday with 12 officers and men of the Eighth Contingent, two officers and 83 of other ranks of the Tenth Contingent. I regret to report that No. 5498 Corporal T. L. Dola- ' hrosse died on the 17th of pneumonia, and that No. 5815 Private Mehary is seriously ill. Four others are progressing favourably, all suffering from pneumonia, and ; the rest are well.”