THE TRANSVAAL.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2280, 29 September 1899, Page 3

THE TRANSVAAL.

Late advices from the Transvaal state that business in Johannesburg is paralysed. It is a ease of a complete exodus and panic ; prices of food stuffs are rising ; half the houses are empty, and the tension cannot last much longer. Another week or two of this suspension and the result will lie an awful tinan cial collapse. The banks aie rushed by depositors auxions to leave the stricken city. Over all, like a spirit of evil, stands the "oer fort ready at a moment's notice to shell the town. Things have reached the pass at which war seems inevitable and the general impression is that the crash will come in a few days' time. The lloers will probably try to raid Natal before the Rritish troops arrive, but they cannot h'pe to reach I'ietermaritzburir. It is I elieved that the Orange Kree State will join the Transvaal, but that the Boers in Natal and I'ape Colony "ill remain quiet. men in the Transvaal and iti.lHHi Hi Oranop Free State will take the field in the event of war. The Rishop of Pretoria ha? ippeahd for funds to alieviite the terrible distress caused by the hourly expectation ofvvar. and the demoralisaton of commerce. Men are volunteering for service :n all the colonies and several patriotic de nion.-tiations have ti-k> n [dice. Riitish subjects I.ope to see rut- tioops wipe out the memory of Majuba Hid. IHe Transvail is almost surrounded by Rritish territory, and Oom l'aul catitKt hope to stand up for Ion:; a_'t!iist lirita'.ii - poui r in South Africa—his *i-r n lis", l'o >oom-r ir liti-r. Tlie poji.-y ot the I'.oer l'. t -i ■> i.t >"*■ ins to 1.-- to Lain time, Int he n.ay ti-mjo>(;-•■ ji:-1 a few hours too irid tind to Ins r .-t what it means 'orouse the sleeping ii A Yankee proverb says 1 1. n't nionkty with a buzz saw," unl ine feels disp .-ed to apply it to thisca-e. Two Puis newspipers advise the Hoers to - re lint mi is ready, l ilt the oppott unity is L' i.e. f r. before the liters can stare now, Rritain will be reaov- and ready with a vengeance.