The Hawaiian gazette., 1899-09-01
Troops are Being Rapidly MObi.
i1d at Cape Town.
AlaBuSCAOES FOR the BRITISH
Text OF krueger's Counter Proposal
10 Under Consideration by
Secretary Chamberlain.

CAPE TOWN, August 23.-The Ma
feking Horse regiment Is mobilizing
rapidly. Several hundred recruits
have arrived and been equipped here
and have Joined Vivian's camp. Ev-
cry train is bringing fresh recruits. 1t
10 rumored that 800 Beers have formed
q I-aaGer on the border.
Although the cabled summary OF the
counter proposals OF the Transvaal
Government to Great Britain's propo-
sition for Joint commission to inquire
as to what effect the reform franchise
measures would have Oh the Outland-
ers is probably incomplete, 1t un-
dOubtedly gives the general lines ac-
curately.
PIETERMARITZBURG, Natal,
South Africa, August 23.-In connec-
tion with the rumor that there are
many Beers who are British subjects
and outwardly sympathize with the
British while in reality they are secret
agents of President Kruger of the
Transvaal Republic, the Premier of
Natal declared last evening that 1t was
the intention of the Government to
take steps to detect and punish any
British subjects cooperating with the
enemies Of the Queen.
1t is understood that much secret in
formation has been conveyed to Pres
ident Kruger, and that even ambus-
cades have been prepared for the Brit
ish troops in the event of war by
these secret agents.
A force of police has been ordered
to Colonso, owing to rumors Of the in
tention Of the Beers to destroy the
railroad bridge at that place.
BIRMINGHAM. Eng, August ga
flrm Of this place has received an or
der for fourteen million Mauser> car
tridges for urgent delivery to South
Africa. Secrecy Is being observed as
to the exact destination of the car
tridges, but 1t Is said that the Beers
alone use Mauser rifles in that terri
tory.
CHICAGO, August 23.-"There can
be only one outcome to the war which
Ia. l think, inevitable between England
and the Boer Government, and that Is
complete victory for England and the
political ruin Of Dom Paul." said Jas
A. Robinson, solicitor from Port
Elizabeth, South Africa and an eX'
member of the Cape Colony Parlia'
ment, at the Grand Pacific Hotel. He
continued:
president Kruger's actions in the
recent negotiations with England, as
given in press dispatches since ! left
South Africa, are in perfect accord
with that which was expected there.
He will.temporize as long as possible
to delay war and then 1t is generally
supposed, will pursue desultory tactics
in the hope that either some foreign
power or the Liberal party in England
will come To his rescue. AS the for
mer Is out of the question, he is prob
ably hoping for interference by the
Liberals, which was all that saved him
in 1880, when Gladstone's influence
stopped hostilities.
'Since the matter has come to n
crisis Oom Paul may make some con-
cessions in the matter of franchises for
Uitlanders, but 1t is not probable that
he will give in where the financial in
terests of the Dutch ring are at stake.
He will probably fight rather than al
low the Dutch dynamite and other mo-
nOpolies to be broken up. But wheth-
10. tg nn1N
one thing which can save Kruger his
prestige, and that is weakening on the
part Of England That is most un-
likely. II there Is war he Is certain
TO be crushed. II there Is no war, ow-
ing to his giving in to the English de-
mands, he will lose his hold on the
Beers"
LONDON, August 23.--The Secretary
Of State for the Colonies, Joseph
Chamberlain, has received the text Of
the Transyaal's reply To the proposals
OF the British Government and now
has II under consideration. The mem
bers of the Cabinet are within reach,
but until the Government has deter
mined on what course to pursue, Mr.
Chamberlain Is unwilling 10 diyulge
the contents Of the message from
South Africa,
LONDON, August GA Parllamen,
tary paper, dealing with the Transyaal
crisis, was issued today. II details
the efforts OF the BOer Government
during the past year to have the ques
lion OF the suzerainty Of Great Brit
ain submitted 10 arbitration, ant
Great brltaln's repeated refusals /,
dis'nss this basic point. Tho d0ru
ment adds that Sir Alfred Milnor, GOV
ernor of Cape Colony aud High Com
missioner OF South Africa, writing 4
M, Chamberlain, The Secretary %
State ior the Colonies last June, said
THE way Ia which tho Secretary %
STATE jugyles with the convention q
1854 10 rather Irritating 90 plalI
man
To. nnal dispatch from Chambsr
lsln, dated July 70, 1900, "a lslr Alff0
nllpsr 'oIeufs with tho iaiier's Vic,
- " iLs nulsDabls 'ffsnsIasl eoDien