News Items.

Ellesmere Guardian, Volume XXI, Issue 2091, 30 September 1899, Page 3

News Items.

The steaine> % Australasiam took 170,000 sovereigns, 2500 bales of, compressed fodder, and a large quantity of provisions for the Cape. Four other steamers are filling up. So far, Great Britain'H preparations m connection with the Transvaal trouble have cost a million. Lord Salisbury has assured the Netherlands Government that the integrity and independence of the Transvaal and tho Orango Free State will be guaranteed if Great Britain's advice, which is to the interest of all races, should be accepted. The Boers are looting on Bechuanaland border, and are molesting Chinese and blacks nt Johannesburg, m the hope of. forcing Britain's hand. Lord Beauchamp, Governor of New South Wales, m the course of a speech at a banquet said that the Dreyfus trial was a hideous travesty of justice. ,It is expected that Mr Krugerwill demand the stoppage of British reinforcements, pending the receipt of the final proposals. of the Cabinet. A run on the Pretoria banks has begun. The Raad of the Orange Free State Ins unanimously instructed the Government to try to ensure peace, without violating the honour and independence of tho Republic. Great Britain is purchasing twenty thousmd mules m America and Italy for service m South Africa. The Boers are endeavouring to purchase large supplies of wheat and tinned meat at Cape Town. President Steyn, of the Orange Free State has sent his family to Capetown. Three Imperial officers have arrived m Australia to purchase horses for the _Cape. . The plague at Oporto has spread to a neighbouring town, which has been declared within the infected cordon. The number of vaccinations m Great Britain from January to June wns 28 ppr cent, above the number during the corresponding period of 1898. The Standard and Diggers' News states 'hat President Kruger is more determined than ever to resist the British demands, aud the authorities at Pretoria are not desirous of another chance of settling the points at issue.

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