South Africa.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 248, 28 August 1902, Page 1

South Africa.

London, August 24,

The Morning Post's correspondent at Johannesburg asserts that the cattle plague in Rhodesia originated Irom Australian imported cattle.' The Chartered Company have requested the Australian Government to send experts from iheir staff to cope with the evil at the Company's expense. A Reuter's message states that there are many complaints from the Rand that the oversea colonists are leaving because there is no land settlement scheme enabling them to obtain farms.

Reiiz, in addressing the .Netherlands Litetary Congress at Goiufcral, delivered an inflammatory harangue od the sufferings of the Boer women and chihhen, and declared that he bore an unquenchable resentment to England. The principal Dutch have opened subscription? for rho Roers. Tbey are hea-dt-d wiUi large anonymous donation, which are attributed to DrLeya'. , >

Sir George White has i.-bat he had endorsed General French's recommendation that General lan Hamilton be given the Victoria Cross for bravery at Elandslaagfce. The authorities ruled that General Hamilton occupied too s< uior a position. August 2f>. Dr Leyds is likely to enter the Dutch. Civil Service, and Mr Reitz aspires to organise an irreconcilable party in Europe. One thousand Boer prisoners at the Bermudas have sailed for South Africa. Capetown, August 24. The Parliamentary and Financial. Indemnity Bill has been read a second time in the Cape Assembly. The debate revealed the existence of sympathy between Sir Gordon Sprigg and the Afrikander Bond, Mr Merriman, leader of the Bond, indicating that he is anxious to work with the Premier. Rinderpest is ravaging he Barberton district. General Botha and a great attendance of the public witnessed the laying of Mr Lucas Meyer's body in a temporary vault at Ixelles cemetery, Brussels. August 25. Mr Juta, a Progressive member of the Cape Assembly, moved that the nine vacant seats ought to be filled up. The whole of the Progressives outside the Cabinet except one membor supported the motion. The members of the Ministry crossed the floor and assisted the Bond in defeating the moiion by 41 votes to 23 votes. The action caused a sensation.

The progressives intended to introduce a Bill framed on the lines of the laws operating in the Orange Colony and the Transvaal ' for the suppression of sedition and seditious utterances.

August 26.

The Cape Government have introduced a Bill indemnifying all nets under martial law. The Bond supported it. The debate was adourned. Brussels, August 25. Boer circles affirm that after an agitated discussion the Utrecht Conference approved General Botha's policy, only Dr Leyds and Mr Reitz supporting Mr Kruger'a proposal to found an intransigeant party. August 26. General Botha closes his legation here at the end or September and removes the archives to Holland. Auckland, August 26. At Motuihi quarantine island Surgeon-Major Wallace Mackenzie was the recipient of a handsome present in the form of a dressingcase from the patients, as a memento of their gratitude for their kind treatment by him during the voyage and whilst in quarantine. The steamer Wakanui. frou: London via, the Cape anu ILfmi , arrived this afternoon. Ihe \es«si has a number of returned trooped on board, including 38 for Australia. An outbreak of smallpox occurred on board the vessel before her arrival at the Cape, two of the crew being affected. On account of this, the Australian troopers were nojfc allowed to land at Hobart, and the vessel came on to Auckland: Owing to the quarantine station at Motuihi being occupied with other cases, the vessel will, unless instructions are received to the contrary, be ordered direct to Wellington. - -