THE NEW CROWN COLONIES.
NO LAND SETTLEMENT SCHEME
AN IMPLACABLE ENEMY.
CAPETOWN, August 20. A ca^e marked "Saddlery," consigned by a British firm to a Transvaal firm, burst on the wharf at Durban, revealing the fact that it was full of swords. LONDON, August 24. The projected Political Association, in Johannesburg lias been dropped. Colonel Wools-Sampson and Major Karrie Davies and the principal inhabitants issued an address deprecating the formation of such an association. Ex-Judge Koch has been admitted to px'actice as an advocate in Pretoria. August 25. A Reuter message states that there
I are many complaints on the Rand tlial oversea colonists are leaving because 1 there is no land settlement* schem.o enabling them to obtain farms. Mr Reitz, addressing tlie Netherlands Literary Congress, at Courtrai, delivered an inflammatory harangue on the sufferings of the Boer women and children. He declared that he bore an unquenchable resentment against England. The principal Dutch newspapers have opened subscriptions for the Boers, headed with large anonymous donations, attributed to Dr Leyds. BRUSSELS, August 25. Boer circles affirm that after atf agitated discussion the Utrecht Conference approved of General Botha'tf moderate policy, only Leyds and Reitz supporting Mr Kruger's proposal to found an intransigeant party.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2528, 27 August 1902, Page 21
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203THE NEW CROWN COLONIES. Otago Witness, Issue 2528, 27 August 1902, Page 21
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