NEWS BY CABLE.

Opunake Times, Volume IV, Issue 168, 11 February 1896, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE.

THE TRANSVAAL TROUBLE. London, February 8. The Times thinks that if the Uitlanders trust to Mr Chamberlain animosity h t-A'eoa the Boers and the Briiishv.i l non disappear. Amalgamation of the two races would be hastened if Britain controlled the African seaboard. The Transvaal agitators arrested by the Boers are to be tried at Pretoria. There is said to be evidence that they possessed a fund of £70,000, and bad prepared a manifesto of revolt, which, however, was not issued. Johannesburg is to receive municipal powers, and the teaching of Dutch or English in public schools is to be optional. The outlook has improved.

Mr Cecil Rhodes had a two hours’ interview with Mr Chamberlain, at which Lord Salisbury was present. Mr Rhodes’ statement was fully believed and accepted by Mr Chamberlain as complete. Mr Rhodes is assisting the Government to decide the future of the Chartered Company. London, February 9.

The Times states that the future conduct of the Chartered Company in South Africa has been provisionally settled.

Mr Rhodes returns to Buluwayo almost immediately. The Government defer making a public statement on the matter until the result of the trial of those connected with the Jameson party. Mr Chamberlain, in writing to Sir H. Robinson on the 4th, reviews the events occurring in the Transvaal, and states that he is aware that the exclusive policy adopted by the Boers irritated the Uitlanders, who believed they had formidable grievances. He had watched the movement, and had not believed that a collision was likely, therefore the invasion by Jameson came quite unexpectedly. President Kruger, he mentions, appeared to be similarly ignorant. He points out that since the convention in 1884 Transvaal has been internally free, while externally a subject of British control. There is, he says, no reason to anticipate foreign opposition, and Great Britain is determined to maintain her rights in the Transvaal. British interests in Africa justifies the Imperial Government in advising the Transvaal to remedy the grievances of the Uitlanders, who are chiefly British subjects. In regard to finance, franchise, education, State monopoly of labor, railways and police, Mr Chamberlain states that he cordially appreciates Kruger’s magnanimous conduct in the recent difficulty, and invites him to England to discuss details of the proposals. SLAVE TRADERS DEFEATED. London, February 8. Particulars of the fight with slave traders show that Lieut. Abston, who commanded 150 regulars and 5000 native allies, defeated 20,000, destroyed their forts and fifty villages, and captured GOO Nyassa slaves. The effect of this victory is to break the Zambesi slave road, close the routes by which negroes were driven to the seaboard, and open up the interior to legitimate trade. The British loss was only six, but that of the natives was large. TURKISH AFFAIRS. London, February 7. It is reported that a thousand people at Bitlis were coerced into embracing Islamisra. The distress at Erzeroum at Trebizond passes description. Washington, February 8. Mr Morse tabled a bill in the House to the effect that the Sultan should be abolished, and State control by Europe established, with a Christian as president. A SERIOUS AFFRAY. Brisbane, February 8. A serious dispute took place at a hotel at Mount Morgan. Butler, the landlord, fired two gunshots at a party of men who were drinking in the house, and wounded two of them, while a third man was severely injured by a blow from a tomahawk. Butler Las been arrested. A BRAZILIAN FILIBUSTERED. Paris, February 8. The Parisian press is clamoring for steps to be taken against Cabral, a Brazilian filibuster leader, who has taken possession of disputed territory between French Guiana and Brazil. CANADA’S LOYALTY. Ottawa, February 8. The Canadian House of Commons has adopted unanimously an address of loyalty to the Queen, which is intended as a protest against the American assertion that the Dominion is only waiting a chance to join the Union. QUEENSLAND FLOODS. Brisbane, February 9. The river at Rockhampton is about level with the flood in 1890. The town is surrounded by boats plying in every direction. There is very little damage to property so far. London, February 8. The Warrigal’s sheep brought 28s 6d each, Lisbon, February 7. An attempt was made to dynamite the residence of the doctor who certified to the lunacy of the man who recently struck King Carlos with a stona.