THE TRANSVAAL SITUATION.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1425, 22 June 1899, Page 23

THE TRANSVAAL SITUATION.

PRETORIA, Monday. Iho Transvaal Government disavows any idea of calling in any foreign Power t-o arbitrate on tiie differences with Great Britain. A meeting of 4000 burghers at Pardekraal resolved to support President Kruger in not conceding more to outlanders. General Joubert (Vice-President) and tour other members of the Transvaal Executive were present at the meeting. It has transpired that Germany has •supported the representations made to Mr Kruger by the Government, of the Netherlands with reference to his attitucie in the dispute with the outlanders and uiges him to adopt a conciliatory tone. • ™ T , , LONDON, Monday. , „4 lie Johannesburg correspondent of the limes states that Mr Kruger's franchise scheme is practically identical with the proposals lie made at the conference he had with Sir A. Milner at Bloemfontein, There is, however, greater discretionaiy powers assumed by the Republican. Government with a view to strengthening the existing regimen. ti •! ~ LONDON, Tuesday. Tne Daily* Mail ” states that’ trade at Johannesburg is stagnant, and there is a serious shortage of labour for the mines, hundreds of the native employees leaving the works daily. Of the European residents 2000 women nnd children have left the town in five days. _. PRETORIA, Tuesday. lhe burghers at Pieterbourg have" endorsed President Kruger’s proposals in regard to the Outlanders’ franchise. r LONDON, Monday. lhe “St. James’s Gazette” has published General Joubert’s clan of campaign in the event of war taking place between the Transvaal and Great Britain. . The Boer sympathisers aid agents m the 1 ransvaal and Cape Oniony are to destroy the Cape to Buluwayo railway. Kimberley is to be raided by the Boers, and the De Beers mines destroyed. General Joubert, according to this plan, states that lie expects to be master of Capetown in a fortnight. The Port Elizabeth-Pretoria railway will also be destroyed south of Bloemfontein. ANOTHER VIEW. A MINE OWNER’S OPINION. Mr J. B. Robinson, the well-known South African mine owner, now, m London, having been interviewed, said, that in bis opinion the theory respecting the Boer agents and sympathisers was unfounded, and the Afrikanders and Dutch in Cape Colony were neutral regarding the present troubles, and any war would be restricted to the Transvaal. Mr Robinson has sent a cablegram to 'ir Kruger strongly appealing to him to meet Sir Alfred Milner’s views.