... TROOPS FOR SOUTH AFRICA. The reinforcements which are being sent to Natal, at the request of the Government that Colony, for tlie defence of Natal and for all contingencies,'* are not (as was explained yesterday) what are considered reliefs. Their duty ...

... PORTUGUESE EAST AFRICA. According to advices received at Cape Town from BJantyrc, Portuguese expedition which is cooperating with British force against the chief Mataka has readied Kanyelas. The expedition’s advance is hampered, Reuter says, by want of ...

... MILITARY STORES FOR SOUTH AFRICA. The Central News lerrns that large quantity of military stores, including new cavalry equipments, are being got ready for dispatch to South Africa. A considerable proportion is lor Natal. THE PHILIPPINES. AMERICANS RECAPTURE ...

... THE GLOBE; SATURDAY. AUGUST 26, 1899. ferenfc view would be token by him in case of war. At Pretoria the Volksraad have token another step in the filling up of the cup of their iniquities accepting the report of the Dynamite Commission by 18 votes to ...

... taken from the Official Handbook of the Cape and South Africa,” Page 16G, viz.:—This closed the administration of the Dutch Government in South Africa. At the ilnal conclusion of the Napoleonic War in Europe, in 1815, the King the Netherlands, couveution ...

... representative was to-day informed at the War Office that nothing was known there with regard to the statement that Lord Wolseley had notified his willingness to allow 100 of the London Scottish Rifles to serve in South Africa in the event of hostilities. GENERAL ...

... Afrikander Bond. If. he said, there had not been a Bond Ministry at the Cape at the present moment South Africa would have been bathed in a bloody war. But, thank God. the Bond had been true to its principles while loyal to the Queen’s Government. It had ...

... 000 were sent there would be war. He did not think there would war if the Government kept its foot down, and stated determinedly and unmistakably the irreducible minimum which England, the paramount Power in South Africa, was determined to accept. ...

... black terror.” throughout South Africa. There could be surer way of producing general native rising than placing arms in the hands of the blacks for use against white soldiers. That has never yet been done in Seuth Africa, and it seems almost incredible ...

... reference to the report that the proffered services the London Scottish Volunteers for South Africa had been officially accepted, the Tress Association, on inquiry at the War Office, was informed that the department has not accepted such offer. The commanding ...

... the crisis is protracted fraught with heavy loss to the mercantile community both throughout South Africa and home ; and whether the issue be peace or war, the expenditure on military stores and transport will item in next year's Budget which will bring ...

... transit of large amount ammunition through Cape Colony to (lie Free State, has directed attention to the immense accumulation of war material in the two Republics, especially in the Transvaal. The Uitlander population being debarred from carrying arms, the ...