CABLE NEWS.

Evening Post, Volume LXIV, Issue 121, 18 November 1902, Page 5

CABLE NEWS.

[bx eleotbio telegbaph.— copibight,] ♦ SOUTH AFRICA; PARTY FEELING IN CAPE COLONY. [press association.] LONDON, 17th November. The South African League is being reorganised on a less militant basis. Mr. Justice Binghnin declares that Lord Alverstone's Commission, which recently enquired into the administration of martial law during the- late war, encountered in the Transvaal and the Orange River Colony nothing like the bitterness prevalent at the Cape. Correspondents at Capetown declare that the loyalists strongly complain that the compensation committees in many localities are Boer and pro-Boer. Moreover, the Treason Courts merely disfranchise rebels, and do not compel them to restore the property of loyalists. Many of the loyalist farmers, it is stated, are -among the most destitute. An ordinance -wtiich has been issued by the Transvaal Government to prevent the reduction of breeding stock forbids the slaughter of cows, heifers, and calves for sale for meat for two years. THE FARMING DELEGATES. OTTAWA, 17th November. Mr. Jooste and a party of Boer representatives are passengers ■•for Australia by the Miowera. They were greatly impressed with the possibilities of Canadian trade with South Africa in agricultural implements, vehicles, lumber, and cattle. THE FUTURE OF THE TRANSVAAL (Received November 18, 9.15 a.m.) LONDON, 17th November. Mr. Percy FitzpsMck, in an. article in The Times, recommends that a very small direct war tax shall be levied in the Transvaal, and that tho proceeds from Government rights in future mining shall be applied to the purchase and development of railways, irrigation, and well-sinking, so as to attract settlers and bring contentment and racial reconcilia.tion. Ultimately Britain, from the revenue derived from public works and sales of land, would, Mr. Fitzpatrick says, recover the greater part of the cost of the war, besides opening South Africa as a great field of colonisation.