SOOTH AFRICAN AFFAIRS.

Feilding Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 7, 30 September 1902, Page 2

SOOTH AFRICAN AFFAIRS.

♦- Telegraph. Press Association. Copyright London, September 29. Thirteen thousand five hundred and seventy-two licenses for claims have been granted at Pietersburg, and 8895 in the Barbeton districts early enough to enable the poorest to reach their destinations ou the 24th. Claims were pegged out at daybreak on the 25th, there being no disorder. The happiest results are anticipated from Lord Milner's tour in the Western Vraosraß^ He has invited suggestions and discussed plans of settlement with the leading Boers, including- General Oronje's son and J. L. Vandemerve, formerly Mining Commissioner at Johannesburg. They showed themselves eager to promote the prosperity of the country and expressed general satisfaction at the arrangements for educating the Boer children. The Times' Capetown correspondent states that the local Boer funds amount to £67,288. A large proportion is being devoted to prisoners . of war, and £27,975 was invested by the Women and Orphans Committee. During the war it .was reported that it was not necessary to spend this money inasmuch as the women and orphans were cared for, and the committee now say that the money will remain invested until the Boer Ministers who have been prominently connected with the committee, , rejoin their congregations.