SOUTH AFRICAN A AFFAIRS.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 11818, 25 July 1902, Page 3

SOUTH AFRICAN A AFFAIRS.

TO BOTHA ASli) DE :,■■• .LAEET.;. United Press Association—Per Electrib Telegraph— Gopyrigb.tr Received 10:52 p.m., July 24th. CAPETOWN, 'General Botha has arrived at Capetown.. 5n thanking the Afrikanders for the •ception given him, at "the hall of the Dutch; ffcefonried Church, he urged the necessity &r~ co-operation, as Africa was the only country they could call theiri home. General De la Rey declared that tire 3Joers had -huried their Mausers and their flag, but not their traditions. Many weiiwere present at the reception. A'ROYAL COMMISSION. IN PRAISE OF THE BRITISH. - Received 1.5- a.m.. July 25th. : LONDON, July 24. The King has approved the appointment of Lord Chief Justice Alverstone, Justice Bigham, and Major-General. Sir John Charles Ardagh, as a Royal Commission, with Mr Gilbert Mellor, barrister, as secretary, to 'inquire into the sentences the coujfts-marfaal passed while martial law was in operation, in South Africa, and to report on the expediency of reduction or remission of sentences. Mr Kellner, who- was Ivfayor of Bloemfontein in 1900, on being interviewed at Berlin, eulogised the British conduct of the war, and the deep concern shown by over the earlier mortality at the concentration -camps, and their efforts to improve sanitation. . ■ He added that annexation assures fr-eedc-m, progress, and prosperity.