The Transvaal.

Lake County Press, Issue 692, 23 January 1896, Page 2

The Transvaal.

London, January 17. Affaira having resumed their normal atiite in Pretoria and.Johannesbarg.Sir H. Robinson leaves at once for Capetown. Lord Wolsley says he~has never known the British army to be better prepared for war than at present. The Electrical Engineers' Society has offered to organise a service for national defence. Privates belonging to Jameson's party, who were deported from the Transv&al, were released on arrival in England. The stoppage of traffij in prisoners trust property has alarmed shareholders in the Chartered Company. Mr Chamberlain declares that the national difficulty has praved that the old spirit is still alive, and that the resources of the Empire were never better able to meet any emergency. Great Britain and France have virtually arranged their disputes over the customs duties in Tunis and the Niger boundary. January 19. President Kruger denies that he was aware that the Rand prisoners would under take to proceed to England and refrain from escaping. A Boer general wires (sic) troops to endeavor to conciliate the Uitlanders January 20. Documents obtained in Orange Free States profess to be details of negotiations, and point to Dr Jameson's having a secret cipher for a plot which included a n*rtve ris ng.. The Chronicle declares that the Imperial Government will provide Sir Hercules Robinson with arta**istaut commissioner. The Transvaal authorities endeavour to shew that the documents obtained in the Orange Free State prove that i» plot for a native rising was being organised in 1894 by the Chartered Company, with the fullest aid of the native pastors of the African and Anglican churches. January 21. The majority of the Transvaal political prisoners have been released on heavy bail. Six Bcchuanaland officers have been retained to give evidence against those of Jameson's party who are to be tried in England.