THE TRANSVAAL SITUATION

New Zealand Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 3770, 19 June 1899, Page 6

THE TRANSVAAL SITUATION

AN OPEN AVOWAL. BURGHERS’ FEARS OF BEING OUTVOTED. PRETORIA, Saturday. A mooting of burghers held Ba>;sburg carried a resolution deolamig Fiat tho extension of the franchise to :he o"t----landers is impossible, seeing that the burghers numbered only 40,j00 and 'ho outlanders 50,000. REINFORCEMENTS FOE NATAL. (Received 18, 4.40 p.m.) LONDON, Saturday. Three other field batteries of artillery have been ordered to Natai. They will reach their destination in A-gcrt i.ixt. (Of the British field artillery then; arc three batteries already in Nivu 1 and one battery of mountain artillery. Tie batteries are tho 10th, the loin, I lie (Till and the 69th.1 ALARMING RUMOURS. WOMEN AND CHILDREN LEAVING JOHANNESBURG. MR KRUGER’S LIBERALITY. ( Received June 18, 5 p.m.) JOHANNESBURG, Saturday. Some alarming statements are being made about tho number of quick-firing guns in the. possession of the Boers. In view of possible hostilities the women and children are now leaving Johan neslmrg for tho Cape. President Kruger has announced that the reformers would not he excluded from the franchise. THE EFFECT OF THE DESPATCHES. DELAY OF CAPE GOVERNMENT OVER FIREARMS. IRRITATION AT KIMBERLEY. (Received June. 18, 5.15 p.m.) CAPETOWN, Saturday. The despatches sent by Sir Alfred Milner, Governor of Cape Colony, and the Right Hon J. Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies, to Air Kruger, the President of the Transvaal, have created a profound impression at the Cape. There are great complaints at Kimberley of the military unpreparedness of the colony.

The Cape Government lias been denounced for delaying the delivery to volunteers of the now guns ordered by tin previous Ministry.

THE LIBERAL LEADER. ON THE SITUATION. PACIFIC PRESSURE TO PREVAIL. (Received June It), 1.20 a.in.) LONDON, Sunday. Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, the loader of the Liberals, in a speech last night at Ilford, a town in Essex, said that the action of the Transvaal Government did not justify Great Britain going to war with the Republic or making warlike preparations. He believed that pacific'pressure would suffice to settle the difficulties that had arisen.