The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1881-01-04 00:00:00

THE TRANSVAAL.

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News from Blomfoutein contradicts the report that
Commandant Real his been murdered by the Boers.
There are at present two greet camps of the
insurgents. 2,000 are gathered at Potchefstroom and
2,300 at Pretoria. The Boers are now in possession of
Lb. town of Pretoria, which WA/ evacuated by the
British troops. These are gathered in the foot which
the Boers are not likely to be shle to take by force. It
Is now said that there are 300 soldiers in camp at
Potchefstroom under Bellaire. They were 5i...-ked
on the 19th, 20th, and 21st, but no impression was
made. A. thousand Boers took part in the amok.
Two hundred were mounted, and the rest on foot.
They got within two hundred yards of the camp, and
then fell beck with seven killed, five badly wounded,
and many less severely. On the 22nd, Kruger held a
great meeting at Krigpmad, at which it was resolved
to shoot Commandant Raid and Mr. Collins, and to
starve out the garrison of the camp, is it could not be
carried by force.
The following address is stated to have been signed
by • great number of influential persons in Holland:
—" To the people of England—lt is with deep
interest that we, the undersigned, all Dutch citizens,
have followed recent events concerning the people of
the Transvaal, by descent our own flesh and blood.
And we may DO longer suppress the feelings of
amazement and regret which came upon us when the
late Government of England determined to deprive
the people of the Transvaal of their national independ-
ence and to incorporate their little territory with the
MOUE PROVOST. administration of the British Crown. It would be
Ti Pmazimamos or Plums at the Beard School futile here to dwell upon the grounds for our
to* place on the lard inennt, the ceremony being ameneuront and regret. AlrolidY msnY otemoires--
Porker the Rev. W. H. WhiWng, the chairman notably your Prawn Prime mini' X ire issued
of the therlP being also present mi.. Panting their energetic protest against the annexation of the
lued famTCLinj. moat, mre. T. and y, Ralph MTh. Transvaal as an act both impolitic and unjust. Yet
Barrerlta.,„ Mrs. T. Hunt, lira C. Hunt, Mrs. Tinker, did the people of the Transvaal cherish the hope—and
JUL arum, and the maw Renerfek, Hunt, try 4 surely not unreasonably—that the wrong inflicted
Azialwrews (2), and Maws treetyard, Barrett, upon theca should find redrew But, now that all
, Ayiee, kat For the tooth Tear in succession their a:pone-ions have been disappointed, their
thltiatf prkis warn lAWArded to Eva Pk*, wbe intended Patient)* lue become erbonoted. and tilYerierem.ctaken
every time the school was opened. The attendance of writs in despair.despair.This fact we may do '4i--- Y--
et
this child is rather • curiosity, rat, Hying a mile and a. we Tay be able to account for It. For are not their
haU Nem salmi, she has tear tbe last four years fmunmem ouni---the men who otruglitmtloderi wisri
made 1,110 *Mesdames out of a poonme Lai, and years for the maintenance of their independ-
the attendance she failed to make was when she left enoe ? And should the spirit of their sires have
the school at three o'clock. The children very become extinguished in them' No, Britons; ye, •
creditably went thrte4 mrsmn,e, consistingconsistingor free people yourselves, cannot but sympathies with a
amp, carols, rouneci Haut,. nationality, vet comparatively insignificant,which
awe,. were given for Mr. and trreVueLg and ch-c your ow* powerful Government may indeed eider.
teachers, after which the children were diamiseed for mina" °r mutter over other settlements, but 'which
thslr holidays. will never allow itself to be subdued. It is with
these feelings that we venture to issue this appeal
CERKE ABBAS. direct to the sense of justice of the British cation.
The people of England cannot submit to the dishonour
POITT finsmos, Wedsesitty.—Before Lord
_lNgby, which must inevitably result from • strife, both
Colossi the Hon. E. H. T. DI Irby And Mr. A. Martin: unequal and nnituit, with • p owerless
Mom nationality-
-OMAN Whittle, labourer, or Uerne.,. was summonednsummoned, with a people who wish for nothing more to live
for trespassing in seseoli of Winne on land belonging to in peace and quietude, ender laws of their own making,
Captain mounc,,setten. or Cerne, on the 1.341 of I whilst tillinKt_he mil which is theinf, acduired under pad'
November.—A wittier nominal Gomm Foot proved the and care. We yet entertain the hope that this ottr
aldie, mad • fins of 2s. lid. and wets (ita. ed.) was ' appeal shall not be entirely disregarded. We are
beneesd.---Lewis Legg, of Besokiend Newton. and still inclined to believe that the voice of public opinion
oge t.„.. of Fif,bead, brothers, were charged with will lend such powerful support to the present
heing diti....and riotous at Bocklend Newton on the Goverment of England as to enable her Majesty's
14,h of Demober._Derendacte plandiad guilty, and Ministers to undo an act of injustice which, judging
were mob toed lie and oesta.--014hariss w. Critellmil, from the Cabinet's liberal emtimmts, s never in
ag songs se. ionnbeiee, was fined b. bearding saki , own deeming to have beau or aimed
tor • brash ad the Education dot. ' out."

SINGULAR CHARGE OF MURDER
AGAINST A BRISTOLIAN.

A navvy, named Joseph Wilson, whose parents
live at Bristol, is in custody, at Ipswich, on • charge
of wilful murder. On Tuesday night screams were
heard on the dockside, and a woman heard • Mill eV,
" will drown you." Then a splash occurred. On the
arrival of the police, the man was pulled out of the
water unconscious, but the wousan was not got out
until life was extinct. The woman was married, but
separated from her husband, and had been keeping
company with Wilson for a couple of weeks.
MADAME ADELINA PATTI.

This celebrated artists has just concluded her engage.
meet at Madrid, where her success has been unparalleled.
Feted by the King and Queen of Spain, loaded with
felicitation', and honoured in receiving overwhelming
tokens a admiration, she is now its reefs to Monaco, to
fuiM an engagement for which terms are offered almost
Incredible. As • lasting mark of special favour, Madame
Patti ham been preeented by the King of Spain with the
portrait in groups of hirnse f, the Queen, ansl the Infants,
with the autogra di of their Maiestses.