SOUTH AFRICAN AFFAIRS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 5099, 7 June 1904, Page 4

SOUTH AFRICAN AFFAIRS.

CAPETOWN, June 1. Durand, the ringleader of the Lydenburg bandits, has been indicted for perjury for declaring in an affidavit that the Boer leaders had promised to assist him. The leaders were thus enabled to clear themselves and swore that Durand’s statements were falsi'. The Government's action has gratified the Boers. At the opening of the Transvaal and Orange Council, Viscount Milner stated that the Transvaal was paying its way and that Orange had a substantia! surplus. Personally he favoured a forward railway policy, olTering to capita is Is more liberal terms. The scholars of the primary schools* of the Transvaal increasedduring the year from 11.0125 to :M-,b72, and farm scholars from 2211 to IKUId. Viscount Milner, in a speech at Pretoria, said he rejoiced at the improvement in the relations between the races, and the turn of the tide of material prosperity. J nnc 3. During the recent disarmament of Lite Northern Transvaal, the Kaffirs surrendered obsolete gnus, and concealed modern ones. The unrest of the natives is not exaggerated.