THE TRANSVAAL.
ALARM IN JOHANNESBURG.
EXODUS OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN. United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. PRETORIA, June 16. A meeting of burghers at Baksburg carried a resolution that the extension of the franchise to the Uifclanders was impossible, seeing that the burghers numbered forty thousand and the Uitlanders fifty thousand.
THE CONSPIRACY CASES. r THE BOERS’ QUICK-FIRING GUNS. FLIGHT FROM JOHANNESBURG. PRETORIA, June 17. In the Johannesburg conspiracy cash, Butler was released, and the prosecution confined to Nicholls, Patterson and Hooper. Alarming statements are made about the number of quick-firing guns in the posses-: sion of the Boers.
Women • and children are now leaving Johannesburg. President Kruger has announced that reformers would not be excluded from thefranchise.
THE BRITISH BLUE BOOK. UNPREPAREDNESS AT KIMBERLEY. CAPETOWN, June 17. Sir Alfred Milner’s and Mr Chamberlain s despatches have created a profound imprest sion at the Cape. ■ ! There are great complaints at Kimberley of military unpreparedness. The Government is denounced for delaying the delivery to the' volunteers of the new guns ordered! by the previous Ministry.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume CI, Issue 11921, 19 June 1899, Page 5
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