TRANSVAAL.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 4284, 20 July 1899, Page 2

TRANSVAAL.

FRANCHISE PROPOSALS CON-

CEDED.

THE CRISIS PAST.

OVATION TO CECIL RHODES

Pbr Pbbss Association — By Elbotbio tblbqbaph — copv.blght. Reoeived July 20, 1.86 a.m Pbbtobia, July 19. The Volksraad, with only five dissentients, conceded the seven years prospective and retrospective franchise. Kruger supported this proposal on the grounds of honesty and righteousness, and that it would not imperil their independence, while it would gain the applause of the whole world. General Joubert conourred. London, July 19. The Times says the crisis ha*) ended, and that Mr Chamberlain appears to have fully achieved his object.

Capetown, July 19.

Cecil Rhodes has arrived at Capetown. He received an immense ovation. Delegates from all parts of South Africa, Including the Dutch, presented him with an address of welcome.

Mr Rhodes, in a speech, declared thai; England was determined not to encourage nebulous ideas of Republicans. Granting equal rights was the only solution of the difficulty of the Transvaal. Both parties in England were tumbling over one another in their zeal to prove whioh were the greater Imperialists. He eulogised the Emperor, and said he was confident Lord Kitchener would soon find enough money to oomplete the Khartoum-Uganda railway.