After the War.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7412, 30 September 1902, Page 4

After the War.

Pross Association -Copyright. Loxook, September 29.

General Viljoen, in the course of an intorview in London, declared thai the Bctfr generals wero unwise in discarding Britain's friendship.

Thirteen thousand five hundred-, and seventy-two licenses for c;lniuis "have been granted at Pietf-rsb'nrg/nnd 8895 iv the Barbertoh districts early enough to dnable the poareat to reach their destinations on tho 24th.

' Claims wero pegged out at daybtcalt on the 25th, tbero being no disorder. Tho happiest resu'ts uro Rnticipated iroin Lord Milnoi't) tour in tho Wistcrn Transvaal.

He has in\i:ed siiggec-tiona nn I di=cussed plena of ccit'cmc-nt with (h----leading 13o6!s,inelu3ing GciiiiialCroi ju'a Bon and J. L. Vandeicevvc. foiiucdv Mining CoiDiuijsiojier at Johannesburg. They Ehovved tliem.'oives eagcil to niomote the prosperity of tho cou'nt-rj ur.d expressed gonei-al satisfaclion ht the arrangements for educating Iho E^ri; children.

Tho Times' Capotown con-pspondent states that tho local Boer hrMs amonnt to £67,288. A largo proporti'dti is being dovoted to prisoners oi war, and £27,975 was invested by the \Vomon end Orphans Committee.

Prring the war it was reported that it was noji necessary to spend this money inasmuch as the women nsd orphans were eai;ed for, and the commit*' B , n ~ ow say the money will remain u>-. Bqte "a „„{;] tiie Boer Ministers r> C vn Cn prominently conned' a(? lh -com- e hTmitteo rejoin tb»>;- -^ wlth. lhe c° v congregations. Tha T>- Berlin, Sepiembor 29. mW? -ocr generals visit Berlin in the • uic of October. They intend to seek an audience with the Kaiser.