CABLE NEWS.
[BT BLKOTBIO TELEOBArH. — OOPTBIQHT.] SOUTH AFRICA.
THE CAPE PARLIAMENT. LOSSES THROUGH THE LATE WAR. THE LEADER OF THE "PROGRESSIVES." [PRIBB ASSOCIATION.] CAPETOWN, 22nd AugustSir Gordon Sprigg (Premier) states that £270,000 has already been paid in Cape Colony in compensation for losses sustained through the late war. Britain contributed £200,000. Neither Britain nor the Cape Colony, said Sir Gordon, intended to compensate for looses caused through tho second invasion or subsequent rebellion. The Progressive members of the Cape Parliament have deposed Sir Gordon Sprigg, and have elected Dr. T. W. Smartt leader of the party. [Dr. Smnrtfc was formerly a member of Sir Gordon Sprigg's Ministry, but seceded because his loader did not recognise the necessity of a suspension of the Constitution. • Since then Dr. Smartt has conducted an active propaganda throughout Cape Colony in favour of .suspension.]
MOBJ2 IiOERS LEAVING ST. • HELENA. CAPETOWN, 22nd August. Another thousand Boers have left St. Helena for the Oape.
THE READJUSTMENT OF BOUNDARIES. CAPETOWN, 22nd August. The Natal Witness says that Wakkerstroom, in the South-east Transvaal, ■\yill bo excluded from the territory recently ceded to Natal.
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Evening Post, Volume LXIV, Issue 47, 23 August 1902, Page 5
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CABLE NEWS.
Evening Post, Volume LXIV, Issue 47, 23 August 1902, Page 5
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