THE TRANSVAAL.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1266, 4 June 1896, Page 36

THE TRANSVAAL.

Capetown, May 20

Major White's diary, found inside a drum at Dornkop, contains a statement to thocilect that Mr Ithodes hoped to win the Transvaal back for England by force of reason and weight of population. White admits trying to spy out the strength of the artillery in Pretoria, but found it useless. Capetown, May 27. It is reported that tho police aro unable to arrest the feeling iu Pretoria against tho Government, which has become intense. Dr Leyds, the State Secretary to the Transvaal, is guarded by constables. President Krugor lias (suspended Judge De Corte, as he believed that lie was bribed by Mr Phillips, one of the loading members of the Koform Committee. Capetown, May 31. Three thousand women of Johannesburg have signed the petition for tho release of tho Pretoria prisoners. London, May 29. Mr G. Seymour Foot, Private Seretary to Lord Loch when tho latter was Governor of Cape Colony, asserts that Mr Cecil Jihodes supported the Jameson raid, as ho had positive knowledge that

President Kruger was arranging an AntiEnglish Alliance. London, May 31. A petition is being got up asking that tho leaders of the Johannesburg movements and all the members of the Reform Committee should be released upon the payment of fines.

President Krugcr, replying to Mr B. Barnato, said ho was doing his utmost to obtain the mitigation of the sentences, and ho would pursue a righteous course. Phillips, one of the Reform Committee, in the Transvaal, denies the existence of a letter alleged to have been written by him suggesting the bribery of the Judge who tried the oases.