CABLE NEWS

New Zealand Times, Volume LXX, Issue 3863, 5 October 1899, Page 6

CABLE NEWS

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THE TRANSVAAL C3!S 3. REFUGEES IN S.A. REPUBLIC. INSULTS AND MALTREATMENT. TOV.'N LOOTED BY NATIVES. ARRIVAL OF INDIAN TRANSPORT. PASS CLOSED BY THE FREE STATE PRETORIA, Tuesday. The Boers are insulting and maltreating refugees, and compelling them to uncover during the singing of the Transvaal Volksleid, or National Hymn. DURBAN, Tuesday. Charlestown, on tho Natal frontier, which was deserted by its ml- -.bitants, has now boon looted by native:;. The first of tho transports despatched from India has arrived hero. On board it is the 21st Field Battery of the Royal Artillery, lately stationed at Bangalore. Orange Free State troops have closed the Butha-Buthe Pass, between the Free State aftd Basutoland. A detachment of Free State Artillery is proceeding in. the direction of Kimberley. LONDON, Tuesday. Tho British Liberal Forwards have telegraphed to President Kruger a summary of tho speech delivered at New hi ills a day or two ago by tho Duke of Devonshire, Lord President of the Council. They hope that it will have a pacific effect. NEW YORK, Tuesday. The British Government has ordered four and a half million pounds of tinned meiat from the Louisville Packing Company. Similar orders have been placed in Chicago and Cincinnati. SYDNEY, Wednesday. The steamer Wilcannia, which has just sailed for the Cape, took a considerable consignment of meat and butter. MELBOURNE, Wednesday. A Naval Brigade numbering’ sixty has volunteered for service in the Transvaal. . In the Legislative Assembly the Premier (Sir George Turner) said that as soon as a definite reply was received from New South Wales, the Government would announce its intentions in regard to the Transvaal contingent. PALMERSTON, Wednesday. Nine members of the Manawatu Mounted Rifles so far have volunteered their services in the Transvaal. The number would hare been considerably larger only that many are unable to comply with conditions imposed by the Government.

THE LATEST, BOER ULTIMATUM. CASUS BELLI DEFINED. SEIZURE OF FRENCH GOLD. EXODUS PROM; .JOHANNESBURG-. POSTAL SERVICES SUSPENDED. HEAVY FALL IN CONSOLS. PRETORIA, Wednesday. President Kruger lias sent an ultima* turn to Groat Britain declaring that the arrival of any further British reinforcements- on the Transvaal border vrill be regarded as a casus belli. The Transvaal Government has seized £500,000 in gold which was in transit to the French . Consulate. The ConsulGeneral for France has repotted the matter to his Government. The Volksraad has adjourned. , Si Five thousand Europeans left Johannesburg bn Saturday and Sunday. As President - Kruger is unable to work the gold mines or to pratcct' tli' miners, the Milling Commissioners have advised Britishers engaged in the industry to leave the Republic immediately. DURBAN, Wednesday. The telegraphic and mail -services from Natal to .tho Transvaal havo boon- suspended. LONDON, Wednesday. Imperial consols are quoted at £lO2 7s 6d, a fall of £2 7s ,6d. The quotation for earlier bargains for cash is £lOl 15s. The “ Daily Telegraph ” states that the troops composing the First Amy Corps at Aldershot have be,on ordered to mobilise. AUCKLAND, Wednesday. Lieutenant-Colonel Banks has telegraphed to Wellington, stating that fifty suitable Volunteers are available here as members of the proposed mounted rifle contingent for tho Transvaal. The colonel is still in communication with the officers commanding the country mounted rifle, companies.

NEW ZEALAND CONTINGENT,

■lt is understood that-the Commander of the Forces has issued instructions to the officers commanding districts to send to Wellington the men who hare volunteered for service in the Transvaal. The Government has made -arrangements for the formation of a camp in the paddocks at Karon, for the- purpose of further training the troops in readiness for embarkation should their services be required. The Government has also received fiom many private gentlemen offers of horses for mounting the contingent and arrangements have been made for taking delivery at the various stations and bringing them down to Wellington. Captain Davis, .of the Haw era Mounted Rifles, will take charge of the contingent as second in command to Major Robin. Tlie latter has been permanently appointed cavalry drill instructor for the North Island. The statement that the. Government is disappointed at the comparatively sinp.ll number of eligible men belonging to mounted corps in the colony who have volunteered for service ■ in the TransvaaT. is unauthorised. . So far as the Wellington district is concerned, applications for inclusion .in the contingent are coming in pretty freely.'