South Africa.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 290, 2 December 1902, Page 1

South Africa.

London, November 27.

I The fund started in London in aid of the South African Loyalists has reaehed £5600. Mr Hofnieyer and other members of the Afrikander Bond propose South Africa instead of Afrikander as the title of the Bond, and that its policy should be to aim at federation in South Africa on Canadian lines ; also that settlers be eligible' for membership. November 29. The cruiser Good Hope, with Mr Chamberlain on board, when passing Gibraltar, signalled " All well." November 30. Schalkburger has sailed for South Africa. Capetown, November 28. A Johannesburg deputation assured the authorities that the legal decision nullifying Mr Kruger's no rent proclamation had accentuated the acute distress. Sir A. Lawley promised to postpone the payment of interest on lands, but said that he required clear proof of great hardship before he wou'd move in the matter of rents. HerrVlok, interviewed, said that the Dutchmen's hope was that ultimately the Dutch in South Africa would be moie widespread and deep-rooted than Englishmen. He attributes the Boers' aspirations largely to the unwise leniency shown to the rebels. Lord Milner, in response to a welcome at Frankfort, promised the district special consideration. None, he said, had suffered more during the war. Wellington, November 29. The Premier has accepted the post of patron to the fund being railed in Great Britain for the relief of the loyalists who suffered by the South African war, and hat undertaken to further the movement in this colony. The secretary to the South African International Peace Exhibition, in writing to Mr Seddon, expresses the hope that the report ig true that he intends to take up political work in South Africa, and says that the country and Mr Seddonfhave a great future before them.