SOUTH AFRICA.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume XXIV, Issue 2057, 29 May 1896, Page 2

SOUTH AFRICA.

The rinderpest is devastating the Transvaal Joubert prevents President Kroner acting as leniently towards tbe reformers as he would like to do. The sentences of banishment on the reformers will be suspended if the fines are paid and the men undertake to refrain from polities for three years. Mr Rhodes will take part in tbe attack on the Ma label's nt Matoppo Hills. The Matabeles h ,v.> quarrelled among themselves at Matoppo. and it is unlikely that any very stubborn resistance will be offered. The sentence of imprisonm-Mit on ten of the Informers has been remitted, but no alteration has been made in the amount ot the fun -a. In bis letters to Beit. Philips said that iVw in the Rand cared a fig about tbe franchise. Two hundred and sixty mounted infantry. 150 native*, and two Maxims, left Buluwayo to clear tin' country north-west. Heavy firm _ was heard from the town on Tuesday, and it is supposed thatan enysgernont was tak--r.tr place. Threehundrcd n-bels attacked a party of fifty at Mope Mount a n and after a two hours' fwlit were repulsed. ' 'etitions are b. ing promoted in each town in 'favour of b'liirncy to the reformers, "•he wire i. cut between Buluwayo and Gw<lo. White's diary, found inside a drum at Durnknp. contains a statement that Mr lihod.r'h hoped to win tbe Tran..~ v;iarb..ek for ..Kiiirland by force of reason '•arid weight of population White admits.try ma;. to spy out. the strength of t:io arfilWy in Pretoria, but s *ys be Hound it useless