THE TRANSVAAL TROUBLE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5461, 13 January 1896, Page 1

THE TRANSVAAL TROUBLE.

THE SITUATION NOW QUIET.

EMPEEOE WILLIAM'S MESSAGE.

% THE CHAETEEED COMPANY.

AN INQUIRY TO BE HELD.

AEEESTS FOE TEEASON.

[Special to Press Association.] LONDON, Jan. 11,

Mr Hoffmeyer has cabled to Mr Chamberlain that a radical change is necessary in the South* Africa Chartered Company,, -which endangers peace in the Transvaal, and he demands that an exhaustive inquiry should be made into the charges of conspiracy. _ Mr Chamberlain, in reply, states that an inquiry is certain, and that as at present the chief object is to prevent embittered relations arising between the British and the Dutch in the Tranßvaal, twenty-two members of the Beform Committee, including Colonel , Bhodes, Sir Drummond Dunbar, Mr Lionel Phillips and Dr Saver have been arrested on a charge of treason and conveyed to Pretoria, i The populace appear indifferent in the matter. Several members of the committee have resigned. Dr Jameson has been formally dismissed from the position he held in the company, and Mr Dewton, of Bechuanaland, succeeds him. The Emperor of Germany has replied to her Majebty's rebuke for his message to President Kruger congratulating the latter, on maintaining the independence of the Transvaal. The Daily Telegraph's Berlin correspondent wires that in reply the Emperor's language mutually proffers and confirms Prince Hohenlohe's assurances that he had no intention to caist a slur on the dignity of Great IBritain." President Kruger has cabled to the Queen highly appreciating her message^ and declaring that the prisoners will be released when quietude has been restored in the Band. .:"•";''■.■" PEETOEIA, Jan. 11. Affairs in the Transvaal are quiet and business is being resumed. The Beform Cbmmittee is assisting the Government to collect • arms. Except the leaders all who surrender their arms to-day are to be granted amnesty. •-. ■ ■■■■'"■ ■'?:. :::■.: :v'i-'V^i,: :'... - ■.-■;•• . • .-,- ■' ■ ■■'•■ : :>IFiMf:-12,- ■■ '• President Kruger proclaims that the originators of the recent plot misled the majority of those talpng part in it, and urges the people to Conduct themselves in such a manner as to admit reforms being carried out. He adds that the Government can ask the Yolksraad to forget and forgive. BERLIN, Jan. 10. The members of. the Beichstag loudly cheered Count Kanitz's laudation of the energetic attitude of the Emperor regarding the Transvaal. The following extract from the JohannesIburg Star, of Oct. 4, seems to show that for some time there has teen an> understanding between the Transvaal Eepublic and Germany:— . 'The Volksst cm on the foreign relationSnips of the Eepublic is frequently interesting. It is fairly evident that tho journal speaks thepindof the Government in this respect, and, being printed in Dutch and circulated amongst a section of the burghers, it speaks rather more openly than -The Press does. The Volksstcmfs Itvtesfc excursion ixrfco th& field of foreign policy takes the form of a more or Jess mysterious communication, to the effect that the Eepublic no longer .stands alone against Great Britain, and thai; there are ihore indirecj; guarantees for the integrity of the Eepublic " than in the days when we had to rely solely upon the rifle in addition to God." If the Volksstem, when it says that the Eepublic is no longer standing'alone against Great Britain, means, to put, the matter quite plainly, the inter-.

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vention of one of the Continental Powers, all that need be said is that, in the best interests of the country, it is sincerely to be regretted that a Government organ should be encouraged in hinting at anything of the kind. Whatever may be the case with anyone else, Mr Kruger, at least, must know that any hopes which rest on such, a foundation are doomed to disappointment. We have had many of these side-references to Germany on the part of the official Press recently, and one of these days they will cause the Eepublic no little trouble. It is difficult I to follow the tortuous course of Pretoria diplomacy, but apparently the real object of all these insinuations as to secret understandings and Heaven knows what is to estrange the Germans and the British in the Eepublic. It is scarcely likely to succeed, for the Germans here are just as far from being content with the existing system as the British are. Germans, like British, know what good government is, and they know they do not enjoy it here. But even if the politicians represented by the Volksstvm succeeded beyond their wildest anticipations, do they imagine that the day of reform could be much longer delayed ? To speak again quite bluntly, if the Bepublic ever entered into any sort of an arrangement with Germany, the Kaiser would be found a very different partner from Great Britain. Just because of certain events in the past, the latter has always exhibited a delicacy in its dealings with this Eepublic which no other Power would be likely to extend. Here are two great Powers, whose subjects are closely, connected with nearly every important enterprise in this country. Is the Government incapable of recognising that the true way to deal with those Powers is, not to try and play off one against the other, but to treat the subjects of both in a just and liberal spirit, to the end that both may be converted into Mends of the Eepublic as cordial as they are powerful ?