The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-09-29
ENGAND'S last MOTE
President Kruger
Made Public.
A SCHEME TO GAIN TINE

b yolksraad Today-rhe Forces
Gerera Joubert Counts on-Brisish
Troops still Conesntra ting I'm Boer.
Not Intimidased.
London, September 25-oficials OF
the foreign office this evening gave out
h text OF the letter OF h secretary
OF state for the colonies Mr.. Chamber
lain, TO the British high commissioner
in South Africa Sir Alfred Miner, dat
ed September end. The British reply
expresses regret hat her majesty's Of
fer, No. 5, OF September sth had been
refused and say
The object her majesty's govern
ment had in view in the recent nego-
tiations has been stated in a I'M
which cannot admit of misapprehen-
sion, viz: To obtain sue substantial
and immediate representation for h
Uitlanders as will enable them to Sc
cure for themselves that fair and just
treatment which was formally promised
them in 1881 and which her majesty
intended to secure for them when she
granted privileges OF self-government
to the Transvaal. No conditions less
comprehensive than those contained in
the elegram of September Sth can be
relied on to effect This object The re-
susal of the South African government
to entertain the offer thus made, COM
ing as it does after four months or
protracted negotiations, themselves n
climax of five years Of extended agi-
tation, makes it useless to further pur-
-,,~ ~ 1i-nrrCcinn an fha lir1AZ hlfhQT-
TO followed, and the imperial govern
ment is now compelled TO consider the
situation afresh and formulate it's own
proposals for a final settlement or the
issues which have been created In
South Africa by the policy constantly
followed for many years by the gov
INNER of South Africa They viii
communicate he result of their delib-
CREATIONS in a latter dispatch"
1t a later communica ton, dated Sep
TENDER 22nd, the imperial government
takes up the charges of breach Of faith
insinuated by Secretary of State Reitz,
September 10th which we cannot pass
over in silence" Mr.. Chamberlain
then says:
The proposals mad by the South
! African republic in it's letters Of Aug
ust 18th and Goth were not induced by
suggestions given by the British agent
from the states attorney, IS claimed.
On the contrary the states attorney
| sounded the British agent both in writ
| ing and in conversation, as to the con-
| ditions ON which the imperial govern
ment would waive the invitation to a
| joint inquiry and The result of these
| communications was the proposals
| made by the -ou.h African govern
ment in these letters. 1t is impossible
that the South African government
| could have had any doubt as TO the
imperial governments answer ID the
conditions named, and my reply was
actually the same as the British agent
had foreshadowed to the states attor-
ney and which, therefore, the South
African government must have antici-
pated in making the proposals.
The imperial government also denies
that its telegram of September 8th sub
stituted an entirely new proposal for
the invitation to. the joint commission
of inquiry"
The imperial government then quotes
the dispatch from South Africa of
August 18th, containing an alternative
proposed identical with that which the
imperial government is said to have
substituted, and the communication
then proceeds as follows:
THE imperial government sees no
ground for miSapprehension on the
part of the South African republic as
to it's answer regarding non-interfer-
ence n s~uzerainty, as the imperial
government had already stated that 1T
would not press for the appointment
Of a point commission OF inquiry in
view of the fact hat such an inquiry
would, in the opinion Of the government
of h South African republic, preju-
dice the right of full independence re-
peatedly recognized by the imperial
government.
4" AS to the use of the English an
guage in the volksraad, the Imperial
government regards this as reasonable
and is astonished that the govern
ment of the South African repuo-
lie should deem it unnecessary and
make a point of denying that the gov
eminent of the South African republic
ever proposed the same to the British
| agent"
Pretoria, September 25.-The impe-
rial dispatch was read today in the
volksraad.
President Kruger that the
reply of the government of the South
African republic would be presented to
the volksraad tomorrow.
Durham, Natal, September 25.-Seven
hundred and fifty men of the leicester
shire regiment, $50 of the Royal Dublin
Fusfliers, 200 mounted infantry and thu
Eighteenth Hussars, have arrived at
Dundee from Ladysmith.
Capetown, September 25.-It is re-
ported from Pretoria that Commands
General Piet Joubert reckons on 1906
Transvaal troops, $1,000 from the
Orange Free State, 5000 from Cape
Colony, 1000 from Natal and 5000 Hol.
lander, German and other volunteers.
London, September "a SPECIAL
from Pretoria says that the members
of the volksraad, believeing that the
British are intending to gain time for
the concentration of troops, urge tbs
government to adjourn the raad i'm
mediateqy and to e Great Britain
a note declaring that further mobili.
zarfon viii be regarded as an unfriendly
act
Trenches. ea-thwoTks and sand-bae
defences are being erected in all the
available approaches 90 the capital.
Slayer efBoney BernatOss Partner
Arrested
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