South Africa.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 234, 26 July 1902, Page 1

South Africa.

i London, July 22. | In (he House of Commons Mr Brodrick stated tbat between 20 and 80 carefully selected Boera had enlisted in the South African Constabulary, one-half being Nationalist Scouts, the remainder recent surrenderors well recommended by by the Boer Generals. After the debate m the House of Commons with regard to the Colenso messages, Sir lledvers Bu.'ler wrote to Sir Edward Grey, who moved an amendment upon ihe matter. Sir Redvere Duller stated that the message sent by Sir George White on November 30tb, slating that, he had supplies for seventy days unci could hold out while they lasted, differed so much from former messages that he had special reasons for not relying upcn it. Hence he asked if Sir Georgu White was able to hold out a month.

Botha and De la Rey have started from Pretoria for Europe. De Wet joins tbem on the way down the coast.

A disturbance occurred at Dityafcalawa Concentration Camp on July 13fcb, owing to some Doers who did not believe in signing the terms of surrender. Twenty Boers were injured, also one member of the Gloucester regiment.

The British Trade Commi sio i in South Africa reports a surprising influx of German trader?. British traders are only begintr g to awake, but the Americans ai« alert, especially to the specialisation of trade lines. One traveller is seeking orders for files aloi e. Others deal similarly with otber specialties. English firms, however, expect a traveller to deal with twenty articles, and the result is that the market is not thoroughly worked. The Houston line has fixed freights for fine Manchester goods to South-Africa at 10s a ton. July 24.

The King has approved the appointment of Lord Chief Justice Alverstone, Justice Bigham, and Major-General Sir John Charles Ardagh, as a Royal Commission, with Mr Gilbert Mellor, barrister, as secretary, to inquire into the sentences the court-martial passed while martial law was in operation in South Africa, and to report on the expediency of reduction or remission of sentences.

Mr Kellner, who was Mayor of Bloemfontein in l'.lOO, on being interviewed at Berlin, eulogised the British conduct of the war, and the deep concern showed by the officers over the eulier mortality at the concentraton camps, and their efforts to improve sanitation. He addeu that annexation assures freedom, progress and prosperity. Capetown, July 2i.

Genaral Boiha has arrived at Capetown. In thanking the Afrikanders for the reseptioo given him, at the hall of the Dutch Reformed Church, he urged the necessity for co operation, as Africa was the only place they could call their home. General Be la liey declared that the Boers had buried their Mausers and their Hag, but not their traditions.. Many Englishmen were present at the reception.