The Transvaal Difficulty.

Opunake Times, Volume IV, Issue 167, 7 February 1896, Page 2

The Transvaal Difficulty.

London, February 3. The Times states that in an interview President Kruger said he was willing to meet Uitlanders over questions of education and municipal government, but would not promise that they would be extended the franchise. He expected them to remain loyal or be swamped.

Mr Chamberlain has ordered De Wet, the British Agent, to Pretoria, to enquire into the alarming reports as to the disorders prevailing in Johannesburg, and expresses confidence that if such exist, President Kruger will soon take steps to remedy the evil. Mr Cecil Rhodes has instructed counsel for the defence of Jameson and party and himself in connection with the Transvaal difficulty. Mr Chamberlain discredits the telegram from Johannesburg published by the Times to the effect that the residents are reduced to a state of serfdom. Peetoria, February 4. President Kruger has requested the Spanish Government to arrest Charles Leonard, solicitor, one of the Transvaal fugitives, who escaped from the Cape Colony to England, and landed at Teneriffe. Forty of Jameson's troops landed at Port Elizabeth. Members of the Commission of Enquiry have left England. Capetown, February 4. German police in Johannesburg are creating friction with the British, and residents assaulted are unable to obtain redress. Capetown, February 5. Major Coventry and ten other officers have been handed over to British authorities, and will remain in Durban hospital for the present. London, February 5. Several of Jameson's troopers have arrived in England. There is strong evidence that the forged telegrams purporting to be signed by Kruger to Jameson led to the latter's invasion of Transvaal. Mr Cecil Rhodes was heartily cheered on arrival at Paddiugton station. Replying to an address from the Trades Union, he promised shortly to receive a deputation of workmen.