South Africa.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 273, 23 October 1902, Page 4

South Africa.

L mwn, 0 to! er 19. G utii'r'ii (! - v. if, in :be course of a ■.s r eech, iUidure.i that the Boers bail lost nine-tenths of their possessions. * ' October 20. The Times’ Berlin correspondent states that an army order forbade officers’ participating in the Generals’ reception or meetings, and that Berlin society studiously held aloof. The demonstrators were chiefly from the lower and middle classes, and were destitute.of political influence. The Socialist workmen were doubtless" pio-Boer, but they would not co-operate with their enemies, the pan-Geimaps and anti-Semites,-who are first, in [the field of workers, and were only Uirsily noticeable in the Saturday a crowds on the occasion of the farewell to the Generals.

Viscount Milner’s sympathetic interest has aroused enthusiasm among the burghers in the Western Transvaak who condemn the Generals’ coquetting on the Continent. They declare that such action makes it difficult for Britain to treat the . Boers generously. General Ben Viljoen has taken a friendly attitude, and approved of This view.

Most of the Boers express contempt for the Afrikander Bond, and oppose (he attempts made to iestablish branches in the Transvaal. The Cape Dutch are regarded as cowards and deserters. The iN'atal Defence Commission favours a modified form of compulsory military service. Pastor Botha, of the Dutch I,’elomied Church, advocates separate Dutch schools, with a view of perpetuating the lai guage and the'hostile traditions.

Burghers coin pi ill d that the military are selling thousands of uorses to syndicates, who re-sell to farmers at an advance oi 50 te 100 per ceet. ‘ October 21. The Generals beve arrived at The Hague. < apetown, October 20 . Bit Arthur Law ley, the DeputyGovernor, has announced that the Government are devoting £500,00q to the commencement of restocking farms, in the shape of a loan at 4-J per cent, secured by first mortgages on unencumbered property to half the value of the land. Moreover, the measures for repatriation of the Boers include to some extent the introduction of breeding cattle.