YESTERDAY'S CABLES.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue XXXVI, 1 October 1902, Page 2

YESTERDAY'S CABLES.

CAPETOWN Yesterday. > The Rev. Vlou, the Dutch pastor of Picquetberg division in one of Ihe Westerns provinces*, owing .to*! his refusal to take the oath, of loyalty •■ _ ito Great Britian* offended his flock t and churchwardens. Subsequently a kthey waited upon him and offered -. -him &,000- to resign. ,j : ; ft ! BERLIN, Yesterday. : The newspapers in announcing the •;• Kaiser will give an audience to the j c Boer generals' as soldiers, urge that oj sueb a course cannot offend Orteat .«, Britain^n>smuch as he would be d audiencingßtitish subjects. Th« ; report .thai, the %iser.wiU « grant an ' audience >'"■ to^'the ;Boer ;, generals ~ is not corifianedi, but W* f ii organ, which is often inspiredideclared the generala having- solemnly j disassociated. themseiy^i from any political agitatbh or dem&BßtratioD, the Kaiser will receive them; if they- , are bearers of the;Brit|slL«Qyerii-» ? j ment's credentials. .- / * .-*.,- -.-^ loj^on, Tes^craayrf:j De Wet declares the rumors of the i generals' intentions are premature, r ?a*he "Tintes?* d<«ibts> the J generals' would be so iniprudent a? [ to fieek an audience, and it; ;^as t. hardly credible that the Kaiser, who, - is a statesman of great experience and tact, contemplates a step which would arouee deep indignation through the British Empire. Sir M. flicks Beach, speaking at Clifton, said he/hoped that the Boer generals would not listen to evil ounseHors, who were^much more swayed by hoetili# to England than ;, any desire for the welfare of South Africa. It «o, the day fiMasnotLJaii distant when South Afrriea, «» d^s complete self-government, would,jbe equally as loyal and powerful a bul--wark of the Empire as . Canada and Australia. The speaker advocated drastic refotm in the Wat OfficeThis, he said, was impossible until the Army, like the Navy officers, de;- ' voted their lives to their duties, and outside interference with regard to promotions and appointments was abolished. . CAPETOWN, Yesterday. Mr Seddon, in the course of h5speech at the luncheon, declared; that every moral support to the loyal Dutch gifen by^our colonists) also friendship towards thosfe from whoift we differed, must make South Africa a prosperous country trader British rule, ensuring a peaceful and prps^ perous settlement. MELBOURNE, Yesterday. Mr Deakin supplied the Federal House with the information in an official letter he had received of the condition of the labor market in South Africa. The gist of it was i that 12 to X5 thousand people, including hundreds of Australians, ■ are waiting in the coastal towns foi permits to proceed inland. His • opinion was there were no opportunities for Australians in Soutl Africa.