THE TRANSVAAL.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume XXIV, Issue 2140, 2 April 1897, Page 2

THE TRANSVAAL.

/U the Trans <raal Inquiry Committee Dr- Jawson was briefly examined. Hβ pave evidence that he did not receive metractione to snore on the Rand, bit acted on hi* own judgment H» utver doubted the success of the undertaking. Mβ had personally ordered Mnxims *n ■• ammunition. Hβ bad frequently talked wiih Lprd Roeeraead, but diJ not inform him « f his inteoione, knowing that if lie eucceeeded he would be foreign. At a farewell banquet to Sir Alfred Milner, the new Governor ot Gape Colony, Mr Chamberlain, in the cetree of a speech, said that he hoped the Trunsvisai wo«Ul realise that it w*e itt dn«y to fulfil thtu terms of the Convention entered* in to with Great Britain, tod woulf', in time, 'pxtend th* havel of lo , foreignere. The cowatry suppo»a«'i life Btiush Government ie ite determination to maintain the ineegiity of tli« Convention, and the position of Britain ac the paramount power in South Africa, and the aspiration for the federation of the States of South Africa under Dutch influence, wne incompatible with the highest British interests. The South African League has cabled to Mr Chamberlain, declaring that insistence upon the terms of the Traneraal Convention is absolutely essentials