THE TRANSVAAL

Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 162, 11 July 1899, Page 5

THE TRANSVAAL

RIFLES AND WAR MATERIAL SHIPPED FROM NAPLES.

f, THE LATEST CONCESSION. ; ; UITLANDERS DISAPPOINTED. QUEENSLAND TROOPS OFFERED. NAPLES, July 10. The steamer Reichstag has left here conveying 15,000 rifles and 500 tons of ■war material for the Transvaal. • CAPETOWN, July 10.. ■ A letter written, by Mr'.Sehreiner, Premier of Cape Colony, to the Rand Journal, declaring there was no ground for imperial intervention in the Transvaal, has created amazement in Capetown. The letter is widely condemned as ill-timed and mischievous, and designed to embarrass Sir Alfred Milner and to 'encourage President Kruger. Sir J. Gordon Sprigg, ex-Premier, and other Progressive leaders, consider President Kruger's proposals totally inadequate. ! The tiitlanders are profoundly disappointed, and regard them as a mere sop.■•'* " *•....- .. LONDON, July 10. | The English newspapers consider the scheme obscure and the reforms snore apparent than real. BLOEMFONTEIN, July 10. Mr Fischer (of the Orange Free State Executive) expresses the hope that the time'in which those now resident in the Transvaal may qualify '-. for the franchise, under the retrospective clause of the scheme, may yet be-reduced. PRETORIA, July 10. Mrs Egan, whose husband was shot by a constable during a disturbance outside his house, has been compensated by the Transvaal Government for her loss in order to prevent British intervention. i BRISBANE, this day. \ The Government of this colony have offered the Imperial Government to equip and send two hundred and fifty mounted infantry to South Africa.