THE TRANSVAAL.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 12911, 28 February 1906, Page 5

THE TRANSVAAL.

THE BOERS INTRIGUING

STRIVING FOR SUPRESLA.CY.

United Press Association—Per ElectricTelegraph—Copyright. LONDON, February 26. The "Times" Johannesburg correspondent states that owing to the Government's vacillation the Boers are intriguing and endeavouring to strike a profitable bargain by offering Britishers a sufficient " quid pro quo" for the support of Chinese labour. The "Daily Telegraph's" Johannesburg correspondent says that the Boers are again" intriguing: lor racial supremacy, their feeling being similar to-that of 1881'. LOYAL BASUTOS.

CAPETOWN, February' 26. Twenty thousand mounted Basutos at Slaseru received the Earl <jf Selborne (Go-, vernor of the, Transvaal) with an ovation,, and proclaimed their fealty. NATIVES PAY.THE HUT TAX. '] CAPTURE OF SIURDERERS. Received 9.30 p.m., February 27th. CAPETOWN, February 27. The chief Umskofeli, with 400 of his head men, and 100 mounted followers, has arrived at Mackenzie's camp to "pay the tax. v "': Six of the natives who were implicated in the murders of police at Richmond, were captured in the New Leeds.district. Mapumula, the centre of disaffection, lies between -Stanger and Greytown.

ADDRESS BY VISCOUNT MILXEBL Received 10 p.m.. February 27th. ' LONDON. February 27.; Viscount Milner has initiated a two days' debate, warning Britain that if South Africa is irost. it- is gone for ever. • He pje-' itured the Boer majority in Q.rangia j'xfand the Very hand that"iaxT drafted the ultimatum of* 1899 would draft Ministers'.minutes for submission .to: the British Governor, who was virtually bound to obey. (His. reference pointed to Mr A. J). Fischer, -as. the. figure behind Mr Steyn.) Viscount Milner showed that many British settlers in Oianjjia were, teii£,'jts with guarantees- from the Government. All were dependent for their welfare on Britain's refusal to throw away the results of the war. The Government's haste rewiled the hysterics of the early eighties abont.Efjypt. The only difference was landlords lind taken the bondholders"place. His murai ttas the same. They should push forward material development, and pioceed with constitutional government cautiously. Lord Elgin paid a tribute to. Viscount Milner's great services, showing that at a time of special anxiety his courage and devotion to. his country would not be forgotten. Lord Elgin reiterated the' need for time and inquiry in framing the Transvaal constitution.- He deeply regretted that the inaccurate term " slavery" should have been applied to Chinese labour.