South Africa.

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South Africa.

London, September 22. Reuter says that 2.0,000 Boers have been repatriated to the Transvaal and 30,661 to Orangia. A peaceful settlement of Orangia is assured, but some bitterness ia still nursed in the Tiansvaal. The Times’ Johannesburg correspondent asserts that the civil and military authorities are anxious that military commissions should be abolished, and that the work of compensation be transferred to the civil govbi nment with a view to expediting it. The Financial News states that the Inland Revenue Department claims mure than £1,000,000 as income tax on past profits of the De Beers mines.

; The Weiner Tagblatt declares 1 that the Boer Generals desire to secure Mr Kruger’s return to South | Africa. i The Boer negotiations with the 1 Dutch Mortgage Bank of South Africa are resultless. It is feared that Britain would not assent to any decisions arrived at. The Daily Mail says an account has been opened in the Imperial Treasury on the basis of the Transvaal and Orangia paying £100,000,000, as a contribution to the cost of the war, and the price of good government. The Treasury will not press the new colonies unduly. A loan of £50,000,000 will be floated, and from this the Treasury will recoup itself partly for the expenditure incurred. The loan will not be floated entirely until the surplus revenues (probably wo or three years hence), ha.ve considerably expanded. In any case the contribution will be proportionate to the prospeiity of the colonies. September 23. The Morning Post urges the Government to anthoritively declare the proposals for taxation of the

j new colonies. The Telegraph states t that the total mentioned by the Daily Mail is disbelieved in the city. Capetown, September 23. The Assembly resumed the debate on the suspension question and 1 general indemnity. Mr Anderson i declared that he would not have voted but for Mr Chamberlain’s circular. Mr Dewal said that the Afrikanders were satisfied with the British flag. They desired to promote federation, and were averse to a division on racial lines. He claimed liberty in matters of intemal policy. Mr Laing, an exMinister would hesitate to say that the suspension of the Constitution might not yet be necessary. Mr Schermbrucker warmly defended Lord Milner. Sir Gordon Sprigg justified his own attitude as harmonising with his speech of June 2nd. He denied making a bargain with the Afrikander Bond. His

one object was to maintain Imperial power. Had the Imperial Government sanctioned the suspension it would have shaken the foundations of the Empire and other colonies beside the Cape. A motion to adjourn the debate was negatived by 43 votes to 53 votes. Mr Merriman’s motion was carried unchallenged. The Royal Commission’s first list of recommendations for the Cape proposes the immediate release of 113 persons.