CABLE NEWS.

Evening Post, Volume LXIV, Issue 36, 11 August 1902, Page 4

CABLE NEWS.

[BT ELEOTBIO TXLEOBAPH. — OOPTBIGHT.J ♦ ■ THE SOUTH AFRICAN SETTLEMENT. CONDUCT OF :THB WAR. THE ROYAL COMMISSIONERS [VBKSS ASSOCIATION.] LOKDON, 9th August. Mr. Balfour has announced that Lord Elgin's Commission to enquire into the conduct of the war would include Field Marshal Sir Henry Norman, Admiral Sir John Hopkins, Lord Esher, Sir John Jackson, the cement contractor, and Sit John Hedge, a member of the Council of India. DEATH OP GENERAL LUCAS MEYER. LONDON, 9th August. The Brussels newspaper Le Petit Blett' Sports the death of General Luc**, eyer, of heart disease. (Received August 11, 8.31 a.m.) LONDON, 10th August. - The body of General Lucas Meyer ha* been embalmed. The funeral will take place after General Botha's arrival. Later on General Meyer's remains trill be interred at Pr* tori*. AN IRRECONCILABLE. v LONDON, Bth August. Mr. Reitz, jun., has arrived at Naples In the course of an interview, he declared that the Boers were beaten, not by the soldiers, but by abject misery. He said there would pc war again within three or four years. Many of the young Boers would emigrate rather tllan submit. Many of them were going to Madagascar. EXORBITANT HOUSE-RENTS AT JOHANNESBURG. LONDON, 9th August The Johannesburg Town Council iM petitioning the Government to grant iiu..hties for housing accommodation. Rents at present absorb 40 per cent, of income. Many persons are encamped on Government land, owing to the difficulties of railway transport. The Governor has been advised that Trooper D. M'Loughlin, of HalsweU, Chnstchurch ,who went tq South Africa with the Seventh Contingent, was dangerously ill at Howick with lung trouble. The Jollowinp cablegram nan been received by the Acting-Minister for Defence from Major Andrew, dated Melbourne, 1 9th August r — - "The troopship Montrose sails from Melbourne for Auckland to-day. The accommodation, food, general health, and discipline of troops exoellent." • *