South Africa.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 251, 4 September 1902, Page 1

South Africa.

London, August 31. Mr Fischer has unexpectedly joined the Boer Generals, who are proceeding to London. This is believed to be an indication that tre Generals are in harmony with the views of the older Boer delegates.

Boer circles in Europe are not sanguine of the success of the General’s plans, which include an effort to secure Dutch educati m for 8000 orphans left in the concentration camps. A Commission under Commandant I richanlt, is visiting Antananarivo, the capital of Madagascar, with the object of negotiating a conc-ssion for the Boers of a large tract of agricultural and pastor d land around Lake Itassa, on condition that the Boers become French subjects, and learn (he French language.

September 1. General Cronje, interviewed at the Cape, declared that he intended to settle on his farm at Klerksdoi p, and henceforth he would le a loyal British subject. A capitation tax of £2 a head is Jo be imposed on adult male .Transvaal natives and a similar sum on every wife excepting one. Allan V Canadian-South .Africa steamship line commences running in the middle of October.

Mr Chamberlain, addressing the St. John Ambulance Association at Birmingham, condemned the sordid lies and libels which were circulated on the Continent impugning the honour and humanity of the British Army, and added that public opinion would never submit to the expenditure necessary to ensure full preparedness in such an exceptional emergency as the Boer war. Therefore the nation must rely on voluntary patriotism to supply deficiencies.

Crowds of immigrants at Capetown are unable to get work, and their friends on the Rand’ are urging them to remain at the coast owing to the unsatisfactory social and industrial conditions.

The labour market at the Cape is glutted, the parks are filled wdth penniless dossers, and many crimes of violence have been committed.

Thirteen thousand out of 27,000 refugees in the Natal concentration camps have already been sent back to their homes.

Brigadier-General SirE. Brabant declares that the political situation in South Africa is unsatisfactory. The best posts in Johannesburg are going to men whose last thought is loyalty to the British Government.

A heavy gale at Port Elizabeth drove eleven sailing vessels ashore, and two tugs foundered. Durban, August 31. The Natal Government have remitted the unexpired terms of imprisonment of seven rebels sentenced by the Pietermaritzburg military courts.

Capetown, .September 2, Seventeen sailing vessels are ashore at Port Elizabeth, and Sir Gordon Sprigg fears that the loss of life is enormous.

Perth, September 1. Another shipment of 2000 cattle has been sent to South Africa. Probably regular shipments will be made in future.