WAR CLOUD IN SOUTH AFRICA.
EXODUS FROM JOHANNESBURG. FREE STATE MILITARY VOTES. SUGGESTED AUSTRALIAN CONTINGENT. (Received June 25, 5 p.m.) PRETORIA, Saturday Seven thousand five hundred persons left Johannesburg during the months of May and June. The Orange Free State Raad has voted £40,0C0 for war material, £22,560 for ammunition and £13,500 for artillery. (Received June 25, 5 p.m.) SYDNEY, Sunday.' Major-General French, R.A., Commandant cf the New South Wales Military Forces, thinks that, as war with the South African Republic may I e declared at any moment, there is a probability that the services of an Australian contingent might he accepted for the Cape. (Received June 26, 1.15 a.m.) BLOEMFONTEIN, Saturday. The German residents in the Orange Free State have appealed to the German Government to promote a pacific solution of the Transvaal difficulty. OOM PAUL MAKES MORE PROMISES. PRETORIA, Sunday. President Kruger, having regard to the demands of the outlanders, has promised to increase the number of Rand representatives in the Volksraad to-six.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 3776, 26 June 1899, Page 6
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165WAR CLOUD IN SOUTH AFRICA. New Zealand Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 3776, 26 June 1899, Page 6
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