CITY EDITION. PUBLISHED AT 4 P.M. PROSPECTS OP PEACE.
♦ OPTIMISM NOI JUSTIFIED. MANY POINTS AWAITING SETTLEMENT. THE COST OE REBUILDING EARMS. United Prea9 Assooiation — By Electrio Telegraph— Copyright. (Received May 28, 8.59 a.m.) LONDON, May 27. Router's Pretoria correspondent says that the optimism with regard to peace is hardly justified by solid facts. The protraction of the negotiations is not necessarily ■at hopeful sign. Although the delegates have abandoned! their claim for independence, there are still many points of difference which may at any moment become accentuated, causing a rupture. The " Times " states that a high authority in- the South African Constabulary estimates the cost of rebuilding the burnt farms at' £ls,ooo,ooo. Generals De Wet and De la Rej are still at Pretoria. Mr Schalkburger and tho other delegates have returned to Vereeniging. The British Cahinet will meet to-day to consider some financial claims advanced! by the Boers. The Boers at Brussels allege that the 1 British Cabinet has again refused to permit fche peace delegates to consult the European! delegates.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7414, 28 May 1902, Page 3
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171CITY EDITION. PUBLISHED AT 4 P.M. PROSPECTS OP PEACE. Star (Christchurch), Issue 7414, 28 May 1902, Page 3
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