THE TRANSVAAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 211, 6 September 1899, Page 5

THE TRANSVAAL.

PANIC IN JOHANNESBURG

RAILWAYS UNABLE TO COPE WITH THE EXODUS.

PRETORIA, Sept ember 5. The ■tt'ar scave s intense, the preT ailing opinion here being that hostijj t i e 9 are unavoidable. 'jo great is t]ie exodus of people from Johannesburg that the railways flTe quite unable to cope with the j cinan (Js made for accommodation by residents who are flying to Natal and the Cape in hundreds at every available opportunity. BRITAIN IMPATIENT. LONDON, September 5. English newspapers are becoming impatient at Boer tergiversations. Important despatches displaying continuous tension brought Mr Chamberlain to London. He had a conference with Lory Selbourne, Parliamentary Secretary to the Colonial Office. A Cabinet Council is believed to he imminent. THE COUNTER SCHEME. LONDON, September 5. A Keuter despatch says the Transraal withdrew the counter scheme in order to accept the principle of a Conference at Capetown. CAPETOWN, September 5. The accpetance of the Conference is gelni-oflicially denied here. THE PRETORIA ARRESTS. PRETORIA, September 5. Jfr Pakeman has been admitted to jail. He will be prosecuted Hinder tie press law for inciting to treason. The Pretoria, authorities are seeking to minimise the action taken. They attribute the arrests made to the work of undei'lings, and deny issuing any warrants. They say they do not intend to make any political irrests. EXCITEMENT IN CAPETOWN. CAPETOWN, September 5: The replies . received on Tuesday concerning the joint inquiry and the nibdivision of negotiations are unfavourably commented iipon here. The excitement continues. ENROLMENT OF GERMANS. One hundred and sixty Germans have been enrolled at Johanesburg, 50 at Pretoria, and 800 elsewhere.