... IN CASE OF WAR. MILITARY PREPARATIONS IN SOUTH AFRICA. The “ Pall Mall Gazette” publishes the following - —Although he has received no mandate from the Cabinet to do so, Lord Lansdowne has naturally and necrssarily, for some weeks t, been Mnlhchmwyudlhomrm ...

... PARLIAMENT AND WAR. The decision not to call Pariiament together at prosent was of course to have been looked for, in view of the half-moasures so far resolved upon. If there is to be war, there is no doubt whatever rependont) (hak Pastiuesent wil have ...

... “TO KEEP T HE PEACE” IN SOUTH AFRICA. (BY TELEGRAPH.) According to & “Times ” (second edition) telefrom its Cape Town ).,‘ m:—r.uhiqndnlhglfly y-unhy.-ad“hnobmmtohqh peace in South Africm. If, mly_wh_ tween white men broke out, he do his very hswlnph-aolouy ...

... Soldiers for South Africa. - PREPARING P:.'-II(IT\ EMERGENCY. In the House of Commons on Friday night, Sir H. Campbell-Bannerman said . 1 wish to ask the First lord of the Treasury, with reference to met in that i -l;u appears to be an cflicial communication ...

... A WAR VESSEL’> RETURN THE CREW'S EXPERIENCES, [BY TELEGRAPH.] The cruiser Phabe, (‘;ruiu Rolleston, which has completed two eventful commissions at the Cape and the West Coast of Africa stations, arrived at Plymouth this moming to pay off. The Phawbo ...

... lrpidqmm. who, with the capialists’ aid, still show a desire to wvoive England in & war with the Transvaal. m‘“flvi m;‘ that war must embroil ihe whole of South Africa. Several mines comtemplate closing down owing to the great exodus of natives. Jobannesburg ...

... TO-DAY'’S TELEGRAM s.‘ WILL IT BE WAR? } Authorities say ““ No.” THE RESULT OF THE CONFER- [DALZIEL'S TELEGRAM ) Pretoria, Priday. Mr. Frasar, loader of the Progressive party in the Orange Pree State, interviewed by Dalsiel's correspondent at Bloemfonten ...

... an impos- RAILROADS. sibility to get a mes- sage conveyed to the centre of Africa. Now, by means of the telegraph, a message can be sent from London to British Central Africa in about sixteen hours, and very shortly this length of time will be considerably ...

... The “ St. Jame:'s Gazette ” states : Authentie information has reached us that the War Office has decded to despaich three brigades of British infantry to South Africa. These w:'l consist of a Seotch brigade, a Fusilier brigade, and a rifle brigade. The ...

... frairic dal and imiquitous war aggins. the Boers, does not seem to have sufficiently realisd the difficulties and dangers of ihe urdertaking, which, at least, will eniail enormous sacrfice and expense. DEPARTURES FOR SOUTH AFRICA. Mr. Benuett Burie:gh, the ...

... Boer wars of 1830 and 1881 w attributed to tho want of the proper propartion of each arm of tae service, the scarcity of homses. and fio.m:. o&-v.’n, To provide against this cavairy o cere army surgeons are being invi to vd-m service in South Africa. ...

... have been q-ml&nodc for % spatch of o foree of b-‘:m 11.000 and 12000 troons from India to South Africa, and ate now approaching completion. in the eveut of war embarkation of troons wonld occur sunu tancously st Bombay, Karac.. and Culcutta. According to ...