, 1896-05-16

The "Standard" reports that Mr.. Cham.
Derlaln has expOstulated with Presiden,
Kruger regarding the delay in passing SEN
fences on the members of the Johannesburo
Reform Committee. o
A Lo ndon paper publishes a despatch from
Pretoria reporting that President Kruger has
stated that he is astonished at the debate
which took place in the House of Commons
wide bulletin 18th inst.) The plot. he saws
Is indefensibIe, aud there will be no rest for
Africa until the plotters have been punished
He further asserts that there are no Trans.
wall and German lntrigues.
DIR. Leyds, the Secretary of State for the
Transvaal, has wired Sir Hercules Robinson
to the same effect, ut same time stating thar
he disbelieves the assertion that ENGLAND
has a Partially for the South Africa Com.
pany, which is a source of danger to the
whole OF Africa; be also states that those who
are defending the authors of the recent
crisis do not realize the damage they are
thus doing.
A Shanghai correspondent of a London
paper reports that the Russian Navigation Co
have begun building a pier upon the fore
shore at Chefoo claimed by England, and that
upon a protest being made the Russian
Government interviewed and compelled the
transfer of the disputed territory to the Com
pany by China.
In the House of Commons the First Lord
of the Treasury, replying to a question on the
subject, stated that Her Najesty's Government
were ignorant on the matter.
kilograms from Berlin report that the
Reichstag has rejected the Government's pro.
posal to make the export bounty on sugar
four marks per hundred kilos. Subsequently
an export bounty Of two and a half marks
was adopted by a vote Of 1916 TO 10.
The New York Commercial Bulletin quotes
from Messrs Willet and Gray that the above
equals thirty cents per cwt., and reduces the
American re6ners protection by the tariff bv
three and half cents per cwt., enough, it SAYS.
to require a countervaiIing duty and increases
all values OF sugar Immediately and until
it takes effect on the 1st August.
A Washington despatch announces that
the State Department report that at the re-
quest of the United States Government Spain
has postponed the execution of the "Compe-
titor'' sentences until the views respecting
the application to the case Of the Treaty of
1895 have been presented aud considered.
Another despatch from Madrid reports that
the Captain General of thePhillipine Islands
has telegraphed for 5000 troops to be sent
him Immediately. The requisition causes
considerable sensation, 1t is rumoured q
revolution has broken out there.
A despatch from Alexandria reports % new
cases and sixteen deaths from Cholera in that
city on Monday, three cases are reported from
Cairo.
Berlin new states that the German press
quote approvingly ~ statement from Johan-
nesburg that the Germans in the Transvaal
are very bitter against England, and are Join
ing the Beers. Volunteer corps companies
consisting entirely Of Germans have been
formed. 1t further says that the feeling of
the whole of the people in the TransvaaI as
we'll az in Government circles is in favour
of war to decide the question of supremacy in
South Africa.
The race for the Newmarket Stakes. run
at Newmarket yesterday, resulted as follows:
Galeazzo, lst Balsamo. 2ad; Bradwardins,
3rd.
New York, May 18th. = The London
STANDARD" reports that Sir Graham j. Bower.
Imperial Secretary of Cape Colony has pro-
visionally been appointed British Agent at
Pretoria vice Sir Jacobus de Wet.
On the Stock Exchange a report was cur.
rent that the minor Transvaal convicts have
been released subject to three years police
espionage.
A private telegram received in Berlin. how
ever, reports that they have been sentenced
to one years imprisonment, and those who
we're sentenced to death, to 5 We rs imprisen-
ment.