SOUTH AFRICAN AFFAIRS.
rm. n,. L , Oapetow n. June 13. The Chartered Company of South Africa have agreed; to compensate the miners for the losses arising out of the recent trouble.' June 14.— Phillips and Farrar, two of the released leaders, were received with loud cheers by the Johannesburg Exchange on. their return to the city. The Transvaal delegates, who visited Mafeking were surprißed at the smallness of the British force there and the absence of cannoa Matabele natives are making their way in large numbers towards the Zambesi, followed by Colonel Plummer. . Pretoria, June 12. ' The fines imposed on the leaders of the Reform Committee having been paid, they were released from custody. ■ Colonel Rhodes declined to promise thab he would abstain from taking part in politics during the period demanded, and h.as been banished from the country and goes to the Cape. Davis and Simpson, who refused to petition for release, are still in custody.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7656, 15 June 1896, Page 2
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