THE TRANSVAAL.
THE PETITION TO THE QUEEN. SECRET SITTINGS OF THE VOLKSRAAD, AN IMPROVED SITUATION. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. PRETORIA, May'lo- - thousand additional Transvaal Uitlaiiders have signed; the petition to the Queen since it was announced that Uitlanders were largely signing a counter petition expressing confidence in the Boer Government. The Volksraad has held a series of secret sittings. President Kruger is granting farms to indigent Boers on the ground that the Republic must provide fof its defenders. Mr Reitz, the Transvaal Secretary of State, declares that the situation has improved this week. LONDON, May 11. It is expected that President Kruger and Sir Alfred Milner, Governor of Cape Colony, Will shortly confer at Bloemfontein, the capital of the Orange Free State.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume CI, Issue 11889, 12 May 1899, Page 5
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