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SOUTH AFRICAN TOPICS. f Uniti-D Pwiisfl AsspouTioNr— Br EtICTRI T-HiEG.UP-S— CoPTBIGHT ] Capetown, October 19. The Magistrate at Vryburg ineffectually appealed to the Vangzyl commando of eighty to surrender, promising early enfranchisement. The commando were unwilling to be kept prisoners, but were willing to go to the burgher camp. The Chamber of Mines at Johannesburg protests against the Transvaal paying the war contribution during the next five years. Received October 21, 0,55 a.m. Capetown, October 20. Sir Arthur Lawley announced that the Government was devoting half a million to 'the commencement of re"stocking the farms, in the shape of a loan at 4^6 per t;ent, secured by first mortgages on unencumbered ' property to half the value pf .-the- land and moreover, that the repatriation of ths Boers includes to some extent the introduction of breeding cattle. The Boer Generals. London, October 20. The " Times" Berlin correspondent states that -an Army Ordar forbadt officers participating in the Boer generals' reception or meetings, and that. Berlin . society studiously held aloof. The demonstrators were chiefly from ths lower and middle | class, and were destitute of political influence. The socialist workmen were jdoubtless pro-Bosrs^ but would hot co-opsrat* with their enemies, ths pan-Germans and anti-Semites, who wars the first in the field. The workers were only firstly noticeable in Saturday's crowds, on the occasion of the farewell to ths generals. :■ y Tht "Borsen Zeitiing," a Berlin journal, states that the Boer generals on quitting Capetown had doubtless some idea of appealing to the Government, . thinking it easy, but they lost thtir bearings owing to the complicated relations of the Powers. - The "Morgen Ztitung," Vienna, Rkes a similar view, and advises