SOUTH AFRICAN AFFAIRS.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 11955, 2 January 1903, Page 2

SOUTH AFRICAN AFFAIRS.

BOERS FOR SOMALILAND. THE BOER WAR LOSSES. POSITION OF THE NATIVES. United Press Association—Per Electrio Telegraph—Copyright. Received 9.7 a.m., January Ist. CAPETOWN, December 31. General Lyttelton is recruiting Boers for Somaliland. The Boers at Utrecht and Vryheid astonished Mr Chamberlain by asking for £1,350,000 as compensation for war. losses. He told them that it was impossible to recoup everything.- Mr Chamberlain made it clear that he did not intend to confer equal civil and political rights on the natives, though securing them equal rights to justice and humanity. The Natal Government have withdrawn their claim for £1,500,000 on the Imperial Treasury in connection with the waj.

GIFT TO INDIGENT BOERS. Beceived 7.20 p.m., January Ist. LONDON, December 31. Sir J. P. Fitzpatrick, Chairman of the Johannesburg Chamber of Mines, has been appointed trustee of the Phipps gift to indigent Boers, the amount of which has been remitted to South Africa. COMPENSATION FOB, STOCK. MR CHAMBERLAIN AT MARITZBUBG. Received 12.18 a.m., January 2nd. CAPETOWN, January 1. Lord Milner recommends the surrenderee under Earl Roberts' proclamation to befully compensated for stock taken, apart from that destroyed in drives, etc.; and recommends that they and l the National Scouts participate in the £2,000,000 grant. Mr Chamberlain, speaking at Maritzburg, said that before self-government could be conceded they must have evidence of active besides passive loyalty; they must place, beyond the power of any one or party, what would undo the results of the war. He eloquently advocated the unity of South Africa, which sooner or later must follow the example of Australia. The Imperial Government would heartily rejoice when a united people demanded a new Constitution. The new colonies were not yet ripe for They were unable to stand alone either financially or defensively.

LONDON, January 1. The " Standard " states that the loyalists are leaving Burghersdorp, anS that the Dutch are particularly aggressive. Mr Schalkburger's exhortations to the Afrikanders tally very closely with the disloyal schemes he expounded in a letter to Steyn, proving the. justice of Mr Chamberlain's pointed observation that declarations of loyalty may mean much or little. DURBAN, January 1. Mr Chamberlain, while at Colenso, visited Lieutenant Roberts' grave.