The herald., 1896-05-08
AFFAIRS IN SOUTH AFRICA
Mrs. Hammond Pleads Her Husband g
Cause With Kruger
Cecil Rhodes Proposes to Teach the Natives
an Everlasting Lesson-No Troops
Wanted at BuIuwayo

LONDON, May IA Pretoria dis
patch to the Daily Telegraph dated yes
terday says:
John Hays Hammond's wife had q
long and touching interview with Pres
ident Kruger tonight, at which she
pleaded the cause of her husband and
the other prisoners. President Kruger
promised to consider everything and
hoped the matter would be settled by
the end Of the week.
A dispatch from Cape Town to the
Times says:
Salisbury to Gwelo by native bearers.
The Gwelo and Salisbury guards have
gazetted Cecil Rhodes as their colonel.
LESSON NEEDED.
GWELO, May 6 wednesday,. via
Cape Town. May Two Cape Town
boys have arrived here from Bellingwe
and they report forty white persons
have been compelled to stop there
through the~.,;ss Of their cattle. The
holding their own against the enemy.
The boys had narrow escapes from be-
ing shot.
Cecil Rhodes, who had been delayed
here with his column on his road to
Buluwayc, has made an address to the
people of Gwelo, in which he said that
they should lose no time in thoroughly
everlasting lesson. I'VE will attack the
enemy lnassed at Mavin," Mr.. Rhodes
said. within day or two and will then
proceed to Buluwayo with the smallest
delay possible"
Mr.. Rhodes intends, he said. to remain
in Rhodesia until the rebellion is
crushed.
NO TROOPS WANTED.
CAPE TOWN; May THE advance
Of i1I f.Iy;
has been cancelled on Earl Grey's state
ment that the back of the rebellion
has been broken and that their assis-
tance was not required at Buluwayo.
Earl Grey also requested Governor Sir
Hercules Robinson not to increase the
difficulties involved in forwarding sup
plies by sending any more trops.
RHODES ANXIETY
LONDON, May THE Times pub
fishes communication from Mr. Hawk
sley. solicitor for the British Chartered
South Africa company. which contains
the minutes of the board meetings, its
correspondence, ETC., during the period
of the excitement over the Jameson
raid and since. showing that Cecil
Rhodes. before leaving London on his
return to Rhodesia. empowered Mr..
Hawksley to tender his resignation to
the Chartered company If it should
prove advisable. he being actuated by
supreme desire to preserve the COM
pany's charter
DIR. Jameson, also, it is announced au-
thorized Mr.. Hawksley to exonerate the
directors in the Chartered company
from any knowledge Of or completely
in this raid.
The directors also placed on record
their absolute ignorance of the raid.
Hawksley's letter to the board ten
dering the designations of Cecil Rhodes
and Alfred Belt, the two directors i'm
plicated by the "Transvaal crypto-
gram intimates that both these per-
sons will continue to devote their en-
ergies to Rhoddesia in an unofficial cor
respondence retaining their director
ships in other African railways and
telegraph companies.
The directors of the chartered COM
pany on Monday cabled to Cecil Rhodes
at Gwelo as follows:
Hesitate to accept designations
What's your view?'
Mr.. Rhodes replied from Gwelo or
Wednesday,:
Let resignation wait; we fight Mat.
abele tomorrow"
The directors thereupon deferred
their acceptance OF the resignation.
Colonial Secretary Chamber lain has
intimated to the directors tIat the gov
ernment has not considered it its duty
to advise the directors in the present sit
uation.