THE TRANSVAAL SITUATION.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 3746, 22 May 1899, Page 6

THE TRANSVAAL SITUATION.

IN PRAISE OP SIR A. MILNER. KRUGER’S PROPOSALS ILLUSORY. LONDON, Saturday. The Right Hon Mr Goschen, Pirst Lord of the Admiralty, speaking at a South African dinner, said Sir Alfred Milner was the most suitable man to deal with the Transvaal question —which was now a tangle that must be unravelled. CAPETOWN, Saturday. President Kruger’s reform proposals are considered illusory. They are limited to the reduction of the term of qualification for the full franchise to nine years. [President Kruger, in his Rustenberg speech, promised to introduce a Franchise Extension Bill ; which was to reduce the residential qualification for the franchise to the term specified; but the measure was not to abolish the .right of the Executive to suspend its power of veto, which might be exercised at any moment against the Outlanders. The demand of the Outlanders is that they shall be given the same facility for becoming citizens of the Transvaal as a Boer would have should he choose to take up his residence in Great Britain or any of her colonies.] THE ALLEGED CONSPIRATORS. . “DRUNKEN WASTRELS.” A REASON FOR THEIR DISCOVERY. (Received May 20, 5 p.ra.) PRETORIA, Saturday. The Johannesburg conspirators who were arrested the other day, include two agents of insurrectionary organisations, and several drunken wastrels. The attempt of the Republican Government organs to magnify the affair into a second Jameson- raid lias excited the utmost derision. The Commissioner of the Police is supposed to have discovered the plot in order to retain control of the. detective department.