The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-11

London, Jan. lO-A dispatch from Cape
Town, under date Of Jan. S. says that w
Z. Schreiner. crown advocate. and p. H.
Faure, colonial secretary, decline to CO.
operate with the new premier of Cape
Colony, Sir J. Gordon Sprigg.
A dispatch from Pretoria says that the
Transvaal government. is displeased at
the slowness of the Uitlanders in deliv-
ering up their arms They are reported
to have had in their possession 5000 rifles.
whereas only 1900 have been handed over
to the authorities. Owing to this the gov
ernment has issued proclamation declar-
ing that unless all the arms are delivered
up by o'clock on the evening of Jan.
10. the defaulters will be dealt with ac-
cording to law. Those who comply with
the demands of the government will be
pardoned, with the exception of the Lead
ers of the revolt, who will have to suffer
the penalty of their acts.
The MaXim-Nordenfeld Company, man.
ufacturers of arms at Firth, on the
| Thames, have obtained permission from
the British government TO consign two
truck loads of small arms to Pretoria for
the Transvaal government. The arms
have already been shipped.
A dispatch from Cape Town TO the Pail
Mall Gazette, under the date of Jan. S.
says it is asserted there that Cecil Rhodes
! was aware of the whole plot which led
up to and included DR.. Jameson's raid in,
to the Transvaal. Rhodes, the dispatch
| says is i'll at Cape Town.
MT. Chamberlain has cabled to Hof-
meyer, the leader Of the Afrikander Bund
a party having large majority in the
! Cape parliament and a supporter of Cecil
Rhodes and the British South Africa Com
| pany, informing him that there will be
full inquiry into the British South At
rlca Company's' raid into the Transvaal
ana that further violation of the terri
/ tory of the South African republic will
De prevented. 1t is reported that the in
| quiry Will be conducted by a royal com
mission, which will investigate the origin
and circumstances of the whole affair
IL Is reported that DR.. Jameson will be
| taken to Natal, where he will be embark
| ed for England to be tried upon charges
! Of violating the foreign enlistment act
Whleh declares it punishable offense to
prepare warlike expedition against a
| friendly state.
A dispatch from Pretoria, dated Jan.
| 3 says that prior to the issuance of the
| Iransvaal governments proclamation
commanding the Uitlanders to deliver up
their arms by g O'Clock on the evening of
Jan. TO- Sir Jacobus A. Dewet, the Brit
! ish agent at Pretoria, went to johannes
| burg to hasten the work of disarming the
reVolutionists. A government commits
sion was sitting at Johannesburg with the
of the conditions of the surrender
Sir j. A. Dewet was to at
! tend the sittings of this commission and
! render il all the assistance possible
The dispatch says that 10000 Beers were
| under arms and would not return TO their
homes until the matter of disarming the
| Uitlanders was finally settled.
The Telegraph Will tomorrow publish
a dispatch from Berlin stating that. EN-
| peror William received by special mes
| sage on Jan. an autograph letter from
/ Queen Victoria. The emperor's autograph
reply is now in the queens hands. Ii is
| understood that the emperor remarked
! to his encourage that he believed the terms
| of his reply would be acceptable The
writer of the dispatch affirms that the
| letters referred to the political situation
| and that his majesty in his reply, in
| brief general terms, proffered his hand to
| the English people. The letter, it is said
| also confirms the assurances given by the
| German minister that the emperor had no
| intention of casting slur on the dignity
| of England.
The government has received a cable
gram from Sir Hercules Robinson, gov
ernor of Cape Colony, embodying Presi-
dent Krugers reply to the message COM
| municated to him by Mr.. Chamberlain,
| expressing the satisfaction of the queen
at President Kruger's decision to turn
over the British South Africa Company
| prisoners to the officers of the imperial
| government. The reply is. addressed to
| Gov. Robinson, and is as follows: Il
| have the honor to acknowledge the receipt
| of the telegram received by your excel
| lency from the secretary of state for
| the colonies requesting you, by command
| of her majesty, the queen, to inform me
| of her message, in which her majesty
| expresses her satisfaction at my decision
| to hand over the prisoners TO her ma
| jestys government. AS have already in
| formed your eXcellency, it is really my
| intention to act in this sense, so that DR..
| jameson and the British subjects under
| his command may be punished by her ma
| jeSty'S government. / will inform your
excellency of my final decision in this mat
Tnla ci1ar Ia1 hux~ 20
| reverted to quietness and order
"In the meantime, / request your eS-
| cellency to assure the queen. of my high
| appreciation of her words and in proffer>
| ing her my respectful good wishes to
press my thanks for the same ,.,,
A dispatch from Johannesburg says the
| Standard of that place publishes a state
! ment that the release of DR.. Jameson anG
! those of his followers who were taken
prisoners by the Beers will be made con-
ditional upon the abrogat1on or the con-
vention of 1884.
The Pail Mall Gazette asserts that a
second special squadron, consisting of fast
| cruisers is about to be formed
Joseph Chamberlain, secretary of state
for the colonies, went to Osborne to-day
George J. Goschen, first lord of the
/ admiralty. paid a visit to Portsmouth to-
day, where he inspected the ships at that
yard, which are destined for the flying
The queen has addressed an autograph
for his services in connection with the
disturbances in the Transvaal. dis
patch to the Central News from Berlin
saws unless Great Britain satisfies the de-
mands of President Kruger which include
abrogation of the convention of 1854, by
the terms of which England exercises
suzerainty over the Transvaal republic,
Germany will urge President Kruger to
appeal to the European powers to support
him in his demands.
The Globe denies the truth of the state
ment made by the Pail Mall Gazette that
| a second special squadron of British war
ships consisting of fast cruisers is being
formed.
Amsterdam, Jan. 1O-Dr. Beelaerts Won
Blol1land. minister of the South African
republic to Germany, the Netherlands
and France, has gone to Paris to con-
fer with the French government in re-
gard to the situation in the Transvaal.
johannesburg, Jan. 10.-Twenty-two
members of the national reform commit
tee. whose efforts were devoted to foment-
ing the recent rebellious acts of the Uit-
| ia6ders were arrested by officers of the
T7rausvaal government at the rooms or
the Reform Club last evening on a charge
| of high treason. They were all taken to
Tratoria The prisoners included Col.