The Transvaal

Bruce Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 310, 6 October 1899, Page 3

The Transvaal

„ — A great patriotic outburst occurred at a concert in the Queen's Hall, London. Two thousand were present and all rose and sang "Rule Britannia " and " God Save the Queen, 1 ' followed with deafening cheers for Mr Chamberlain. Seven hundred Pretoria Germans are encamped at Eandingist and 300 at Volksrust.

The owners of mines in Johannesburg pay the miners who remained in charge, £3 per day exclusive of food allowances. The Free State authorities are recruiting ia Griqualand West, and impounding cattle destined for the Cape. They are also coercing the Britishers employed on the railways, and commandeering Englishmen at Rouxville. The produce shipments from Melbourne for the Clips continue. Arrangements are being made for a considerable trial shipment of cattle and sheep. The telegraph line .between Natal and Johannesburg is interrupted. Jonbert, son of the Boer comm-ander-in-chief, has been placed in command of the troops at Laing's JSFek, and Piet Cronje, commands 2000 ! men near Malznani, on the Bechuana* land border. The German newspapers are now hostile to Great Britain. This is partly attributable to the loss by German firms of orders for guns for the Transvaal, and partly from a desire to estort concessions in the settlement of Samoan affairs. The Key. Hugh Price Hughes has refused to sign Mr Stead's peace manifesto. He s'.ated that he was convinced that; President Kruger had been plotting against British prestige for yei»,rti. Mr Steyn, President of the Orange Free State, vamly asked America to endeavor with oiher Powers co arbitrate on iha Transvaal difficulty. Twenty thousand Boers are encamped on the Natal border, and tsey boast that they will sweep the English into the eoa. Commandant Cronje tried to incite Baraluuga, the Bechuana chief, to fighfc with the Boers, but failed. The Boers are insulting and nidtieatiug refugees at Pietoria. The natives have looted Charleston n, which was almost deserted. Thai tirat Indian transport has reached Durban with the 21st Battalion of Field Artillery. KRUGER SENDS AN ULTIMATUM. Tho Transvaal seized half a million pounds worth of gold in transit to the French Consul at Pretoria. The French Consul-general has reported tho matter to Parity P/esident Kruger has aens an ultimatum declaring that further reinforce- < merits will be regarded as a tuusua > belli. Fivi) thousand Europeans iefo Johannesburg on Saturday ami Sunday. President Kmger it; un \b,e to work the mines or protect the miners, and the Mining Commissioners have advised Brnish-T-j to leave immediately, Telegrams and mails from. Natal to the Ti'an-iva-il are suspended. The tioops at Aldershot hnva been ■ Ordered, it i.s seated, to mobilise, l'hs steamer Wilcanaia took a con- < 3iJe'a>>Je con.sig.inient of meat and butti-r t;sai Sydney for the Cape. T 10 Maor.'a ii the Waitiirap.i district At e said to be t.ikiug very great iuteresS ia die bta:B of affairs ia South Af:ica, and cxi-. j et to enrol about throe liun'hvd Native horsemen in the Wai • rarapi Mounted Cavalry. Tin British G >vernment have ordered 4,500,00011> of tinoed meat from the V Louisville Packing Company, and similar orders o;<ve been placed in Chicago and Cincinnati. t