South Africa.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 266, 7 October 1902, Page 4

South Africa.

London, October'B. Lord rCv- iMoiU! and hit? tol* leagues have sa led on- their return to England. Tue imperial Government "refusal to extend the scope of enquiry on the ground of the I limited time at tbe Commission’s disposal. The War Office has experimentally established two farms in Orange Colony for breeding suitable remounts under the superintendence of Britislrofficers. I The Daily Mail’s Johannesburg !correspondent states that the Boer committees appointed to assess the damage to property by the war in i tbe Transvaal declare the amount I at £60,000,000. Beblin, October 3. The correspondent of the Times says that negotiations legarding the Boer Generals’ audience with the Kaiser are progressing between Berlin and London, and that if the preliminaries cannot oe arranged ,I Chauvinistic opinion will throw • the responsibility on Great Britain and spare the Kaiser. The Pan-German newspapeis affirm that his willingness to i receive the Boer Generals has 1 bridged tbe gulf between tho j Kaiser and public opinion that has ' existed since his visit to England land bis refusal to see Mr Kruger in I Berlin. ' Tbe “ Borsou Zeitung” says that the situation in South Africa will right itself naturally, unless European and anti-British agitation injure the Boer cause. Capetown, October 3. 1 lathe Assembly, in tbe debate ; on the conduct of the members of ; the Afrikander Bond during the war, Mr Thereon, President of the Bond, eulogised Viscount Kit- ? chener’s fairness, and declared that * the Rand had determined to defend the Hag, but claimed the use of the Dutch language on an equality with the French in Canada.