SOUTH AFRICAN AFFAIRS.
THE CHARTERED COMPANY'S DIRECTORS.
MOBE EVIDENCE AGAINST SIR HENEY LOCH.
THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE TO THE VOLKSRAAD.
London, May 6. The Chartered Company's directors are considering the prosperity of accepting Mr Cecil Rhodes' and Mr Best's resignations. Pretoria, May 6. The Transvaal Government has published extracts from the letter-book of Phillips, one of the prisoners, who, in writing to Mr Werner, his financial agent in London, in July, 1894, says : —"Loch stated that he would .certainly come if Johannesburg possessed 3000 rifles and ammunition. A great deal of drilling is still going on at Pretoria. It is reported that Sir Jacobus De Wet, British agent in the Transvaal, has been recalled to Cape Town. President Kruger's message to the Volksraad indicates that it is intended to bring down measures dealing with the education question, but makes no reference to the grievances of the reformers, or concessions. He attributes Dr Jameson's raid to malevolence. He announced his intention of establishing two Consular agents in Germany.
Six of Gilford's Horse met a band of 300 Matabele. Two were killed, and the rest soon beat a retreat.
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Hastings Standard, Issue 11, 8 May 1896, Page 2
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186SOUTH AFRICAN AFFAIRS. Hastings Standard, Issue 11, 8 May 1896, Page 2
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