The San Francisco call., 1896-05-08
Announces That a Settlement
Will Be Reached With
out Delay.
END OF THE MATABELE WAR.
Natives Give Up the Struggle Against
the Cong of their
Country.

LONDON, Eng, May THE Telegraph
will tomorrow print a dispatch from Pre-
toria, capital of the Transvaal, saying that
the wife OF John Hays Hammond, the
American member OF the Johannesburg
Reform Committee, who was sentenced to
death, has had long and touching inter
view with President Kruger, with whom
she pleaded the cause of her husband and
the other convicted prisoners. President
Kruger promised that he would consider
all the arguments that Mrs. Hammond
had submitted, and said he hoped the m at
ter would be settled by the end of the
week.
The outlook now seems to be most hope
ful. The prisoners, with few exceptions.
have signed detailed statements relative to
the agitation.
The dispatch adds that Jonkherr Setback,
chairman of the First Volksraad, has re-
celved a communication from Sir Hercules
Robinson, British High Com missioner in
South Africa, to the effect that Earl Grey,
administrator of the British South Africa
Company, believes the Matabele rebellion
TO be broken, and had, therefore, requested
him (Sir Hercules) not to send imperial
troops to Buluwayo, and SO increase the
difficulty of placing supplies there. Sir
Hercules added that the British troops,
numbering zoo, would, therefore, remain
at Mafeking, on the yransvaal frontier,
pending receipt of further orders.
In the House of Commons to-day Sir
Ellis Ashmead Bartlett Conservative
asked if it were true. as alleged, that Cecil
Rhodes had placed himself in the hands Of
the Government and offered to return to
England and meet the charges which had
been made against him of having insti-
gated the raid of DR.. Jameson into the
Transvaal
Mr.. Cham berlain, Colonial Secretary, re-
piled: II have not addressed nor have
received from Mr.. Rhodes any communi-
cation whatever since he left this coun-
try.i
The Daily News will tomorrow say that
the solicitor of the South African Com
pany and Cecil Rhodes in London tele-
graphed on Monday last to Mr.. Rhodes,
WHO'S now in Gwelo en- route to Buluwayo,
informing him of the excitement caused
by the publication of the cipher kilograms
captured by the Beers at the time of Dr.
Jameson S raid into the Transvaal, in which
it Is claimed that Mr.. Rhodes and other
omclals OF the company were concerned in
the conspiracy to overthrow the TransvaaI
Government. The solicitor added:
'In view of the altered situation in
Rhodesia the directors of the company
hesitate to accept your resignation. What
is your view?"
On Wednesday Mr.. Rhodes replied
"Let the resignation wait; we fight the
Matabeles tomorrow"
According to the Daily News the direc-
tors met on Thursday and decided to de-
fer their acceptance of Mr.. Rhodes resig-
nation. Previous to arriving at this deci-
sion the directors conferred with Mr..
chamberlain, the Colonial Secretary. who
declined to advise them as TO the course
they should pursue, but who, in view OF
the debate on South African affairs that
will take place in the House of Commons
on Friday, desires to be furnished with a
definite statement by the directors OF the
decision they finally arrived at.
The designations of Messrs. Rhodes, Belt
and Harris as officers of the company were
rendered to the directors on Monday night,