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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume 26, Issue 1369, 16 January 1896, Page 3

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TRANSVAAL. WHOLESALE ARRESTS. A ]?REE HAND TO xMR CHAMBERLAIN COLONIAL LOYALTY. NEUTRALITY OF AMERICA RECOGNISED. If the Transvaal trouble had 110 other effect, it h i 8 already had the very bonificcnt one of arousing the latent loyalty of Britain's cdonies. Mr Reid, Premier of N.S. Wales, lias on belmlf of the Australian Colonies, telegraphed to Lord Salisbury expressing their satisfaction at the prompt and feailess comae adopted by the Mother Country for the defence and integrity of the Empire. ' asd conveying the assurance of the most i steadfast loyalty of the colonies, and their full sympathy with the determination of the Imperial Government to resent foreign interference in inatteis of only British and colonial concern. The Times says this message is a welcome prj )f of the unity of the Empiie. The British Government is receiving the enthusiastiesupport of British pnblicopiniou. Mr Chamtierl.iin receives an ovation wherever he goes, even his colleagues cheer hrn him as he enters the Council Chambers, and til :y have determined to give him a free hand in dealing with the ditiiculty. The international tension is ruining German trade. Half a • illioa ex-volunteeis are willing to join the reserve. I i response to the request of the American Government, Mr Chunhcrlain has promised the same protection to the American Uillan.iers as to the British. Wholesale arrests in Johannesburg has brought from the Times a warning to Kroner th.it h i will have to answer for them. Two hundred additional arrests just made. The Times says :he situation is still critical, while the Standard declares the relation!) of Ei:g! md and Germany are again approving the normal. In deference to the wish of the United States Government, and also as a tribute to ] the honourable neutrality of the United Slates in the recent crisis with Germany Lord Salisbury has agre-d to immediately publish the proofs of claim in the Venezuela dispute. HEAT WAVE. The heat in Australia is unprecedented. A large number of people have succumbed to its effects, and t lip damages to crops, orchardsanil ■stock both from drought and from fire is incalculable. 119 in the shade w.is registered in Wileannia (N.S. W) and 117 in South Australia, 10!) in Melbourne. Thunderstorms from west to east and a Koiitherlv gale have now somewhat inoderited the heat and initially relieved the water famine.