TRANSVAAL WAR.

Mataura Ensign, Issue 1036, 22 May 1902, Page 6

TRANSVAAL WAR.

London, May 19. 'The Timos' and -Daily Mail' advice* 1 from Premier are leas reassuring with regard to the result of the deliberations of the Burghers' Conferenoe. One hundred and n Z ij ; a 2 le B* u>a ar » *' Vereeniging. The ' Daily Telegraph • states that the Liebenberg commando voted (or peace. .u T . h r 00 hftg inf °"«>«<> Mr J. Morley that Lord Kitchener thinks it unnecessary to further detain in South Africa Mr Albert Cartwnght, who has just served a sentenoe of three years for libelling Lord Kitchener.

May 80. Mr Weasels, one of the peace delegates at Amsterdam, stated that any arrangement ' sanctioned by Mr Steyn and Mr Sobalk Burger, heads of the Governments of the two annexed Republics, would be binding on all Boers, while those who stood out would be justly regarded as outlaws.

The ' Standard ' states that Mr Buneiman's important secession leaves only two progressives now supporting tbe Premier, Sir J. Gordon Sprigg. Mr Runciman, addressing his Simonstown constituents, said five members of the Government majority were rendytovote to maintain the Bond. Tbe prospect of the Afrikander party's return to power would be an unthinkable calamity. The Imperial Government ought, on the restoration of the Constitution, to introduce a more oquitable system of redistribution

Camstowm, May 20, Mr Runciman, member for Constantia, ha* issued a manifesto on behalf of 40 colonial Imperial Progressive members. It declares that suspension of the Constitution is imperative. The Dutch themselves are anxious for it. The colony should have a rest for two or three years, in order to avoid the acrimony incidental to elections. Sir Gordon Sprigg's majority of eight implies that three or four men rule, and could compel the making of compromises, with the consequent weakening of any measures submitted. The loyalists were entitled to demand redistribution on a numerical basis. Such a measure, however, would never pass the present Parliament. Redistribution alone would maintain supremacy. Sir Gordon Sprigg believes that federation must begin from within. That would con-■* sume years, and the other colonies meanwhile would unite and boycott tho Cape \ commercially and politically.

Nkw Yhuk, May 20. Great Britain's wholesale purchn.su of tnulos ill Missouri baa suddenly ceased.