PRETORIAN MUNICIPALITY.
A CLEVER BRITISH MOVEMENT
Received February 11, 053 a.m. London, February 10. Lord Milner has appointed a municipality of ten at Pretoria.
A thousand permits to refugees to return to the Rand, representing three thousand persons, are being issued monthly. The number will shortly be doubled. Received February 11, 0.57 a.m. London, February 10. The great drive of De "Wet's two thousand men is finished.
The British troops are still collecting stragglers, and armoured trains are patrolling wherever they aro expected to appear.
The newspapers agree that this is one of the best conceived and executed movements of the late part of the war.
Recoived Fobruary 11, 1.6 a.m.
Sydnky, Fobruary 10. At a great demonstration under the auspices of the Australian Natives Association, held in the Town Hall, resolutions were carried expressing confidence in the Imperial Government, and the Coamiander-in-Ohiof of the Imperial forces; also depreoating the slanderß against Imperial, Australasian, and Canadian troops in South Afrioa by persons in foreign ooun trios, Great Britain, and her dopondonoios.
Messrs Reed and See were amongst the Bpoakers.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7385, 11 February 1902, Page 2
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