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New Zealand Tablet, Volume VIII, Issue 415, 25 March 1881, Page 19

Considerable uneasiness having been felt in some circles as to the fate of Bishop Jolivet, Roman Catholic Bishop of this Diocese, who was a passenger by the missing coach, we may state that his Lordship arrived here j'esterday morning hale and hearty, and none the worse for his stay amongst the Transvaal patriots. We have done ourselves the honour of calling upon his Lordship, and are truly glad that the exaggerated accounts of his treatment are idle fabrications. Bishop Jolivet was detained for nearly a fortnight in Potchefstroom, and it was only upon representations to the CommandantGeneral that he •was conducted to Heidelberg where without difficulty he obtained a free passage. The plundering of stores, the ill-tieat-ment of English gentlemen. &c, are all myths. The Tranwaalers have commandeered blankets and the like necessaries for any army, but their behaviour, in the Bishop's own words, is such as be did not expect, and as could not be better amongst any so large a body of armed men, without drill and strict discipline, be they English, Freuch, or German. The prisoners are well treated, and have no cause for complaint. The spirit of war is over the people, and they are, if anything-, too confident of success. His Lordship visited the prisoners during bis stay, and moved about among the people sufficiently to leain their views and feelings. In the Port, he says, only a child (which was accidentally shot) has been killed, and the garrison is determined to hold out. Against Mr. Forssman, whose hous>- is used as a prison, great ill-feeliug exists, as much on account of his undisguised English sympathies as became he took refuge in the camp, and removed even his wife, an Afrikander lady by birth, to it. — Bloem/ontein, Express,