south Africa.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 291, 4 December 1902, Page 4

south Africa.

LoxixjN, November SO

The cam, > in Orange Colony a the end of >the year will be transferred to the Colonial Government and all will be empty except thos; at Springfontein and Brandfort, containing orphans, widows and aged and decrepit persons. Sir Michael Hicks-Beach has forwarded Mr Kruger’s letter to Mr Chamberlain. The letter appeals to Mr Chamberlain to permit Mr Kruger to return to South Africa, conditional on h'S loyal acceptance of British rule and abstention from politics. Mr John Redmond and Mr Patrick O’Brien had an interview, lasting an hour, with General Bothai

December 1

Mr Ritchie explains that neither he nor Mr Chamberlain intends that the British taxpayer shall supplement a free gift for the Boers for resettlement. If further assistance is needed it will be rendered by loans on easy terms from tbe Transvaal Exchequer. Lord Milner telegraphs to the Lord Mayor that his letter which was published on October 29 has been misunderstood. It referred strictly to tbe new war losses, exclusively in the new colonies. Owing to the Government’s liberal provision for the British sufferers by the war in the Transvaal and Orange, an appeal to private benevolence is unnecessary and not desired in their case. He never wished to discourage assistance to the loyalists in Cape Colony ; the sufferers by boycotting were deserving of every sympathy. Tbe. Standard’s Johannesburg correspondent says that the Boers are amazed at Mr Kruger’s request to be allowed to return to South Africa, The rural population are incensed against him, declaring that he is chiefly responsible for their misfortunes, and they do not want him back to make further mischief. Capetown, December 1.

Henceforth permits to enter the Transvaal and Orange Colony will be issued exclusively at South African ports.