WORK ON THE RAND.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 147, 22 June 1901, Page 5

WORK ON THE RAND.

MARITZBURG, May 9.—The prospects of a general resumption oJ' mining- on the Rand are steadily brightening, the military having- given permission to 400 European artisans and miners to return to the Kaucl immediately. The men must be former employees of the mines to which they are o-oing

JOHANNESBURG, May 6.—Despite the giierilla, tactics of the enemy in various parts of the country. .Johannesburg- is beginning to resume its normal conditions. Most 8f the stores have been reopened To-day Robinson's Treasury Mines were officially restored, whilst four others are about ready, ft is believed that if the majority of the refugees still at the coast were allowed to return and resume work', it would have a very dis-eourae-in"1 effect upon the Boers.

Within a few days the change in the military situation will lie further emphasised by the transfer of the local Administration from the hands of the military authorities to those of civil councillors and officials. Colonel Mackenzie, who has filled the post of Military Governor of Johannesburg1 and district ever wince the British occupation, leaves to take \\[) the important appointment of Director of the Lines of Communication at Do Dnr. His non-military duties will devolve upon Major O'Meara, the act-ing-Mayor, in his dual capacities of Government Commissioner and Chairman of the Municipal Council. BULUWAYO, May B.—There is great satisfaction here at the declaration by the Globe and Phoenix Com' pany of a dividend of 25 per cent, on only five months' .work, as well as writing- off nearly £30,000 for depreciation, etc.