South Africa.

Manawatu Herald, 4 December 1902, Page 2

South Africa.

Mr Ritchie, Chancellor of the Exchequer, explains that neither he nor Mr Chamberlain Intends that the British taxpayer shall supplement the free gift already voted for the resettlement of the Boers, if further assistance is needed it will be rendered by loans on easy terms from the Transvaal exchequer. Lord Milner has telegraphed to the Lord Mayor that his letter published on the 29th October has been misunderstood. It referred, he says,' to new war losses exclusively in the new colonies. Owing to the Government’s liberal provision for British sufferers by the war in the Transvaal and Orange River colonies, an appeal to private benevolence is nnneccessary, and is not desired in their case. Lord Milner adds that he never wished to discourage assistance to loyalists in Cape Colony, and the sufferers by boycotting were deserving of every sympathy.

ORDERS FOR LOCOMOTIVES. Tiie Government has ordered from Messrs Neilaon and Reid, of Glasgow, sixty locomotives for South Africa. The waggonwrights are also receiving large orders for the sane place. The camps in Orange River Colony will at the end of the year be transferred to the colonial Government.

All will be empty except those at Springfontein and Brandfort, which will contain orphans, widows and aged and decrepit persons. Sir Michael Hicka-Beach has forwarded Mr Kruger’s letter to Mr Chamberlain. THE MARTIAL LAW COM- ■ MISSION.

Lord Alverstone’s Commission which recently inquired into the administration of martial law during the lato war in South Africa has presented its report. It examined the circumstances of 721 convictions, fifty-nine of which were in the Transvaal and Orange River Colony and fourteen in Natal,

It recommends the release of several of those sentenced. The death sentences are in very few instances disturbed. MR CHAMBERLAIN’S VOYAGE.

The cruiser Good Hope, with Mr Chamberlain on board, lias passed Malta en route to Durban.

The Bishop of Rochester lias directed the clergy in his diocese to pray for Divine guidance of Mr Chamberlain in the pacification of South Africa. MR KRUGER.

The “Standard’s” Johannesburg correspondent says the Boers in the Transvaal are amazed at Mr Kruger’s request to be allowed to return.

The rural population are incensed against him, declaring that he is chiefly responsible for their misfortunes, and they do not want him to make farther mischief. SPEECH BY DR JAMESON. Dr Jameson, in a speech at Kimberley, asserted that Sir Gordon Sprigg, the Premier, was no longer progressive. Let him represent a Bond constituency, said Dr Jameson then he would be harmless. *

The speaker believed the racial difficulty in. South Africa would slowly "disappear, with firmness, justice and patience, combined with sympathetic appreciation of the aspirations of kindred people.