The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-06-03
NO PEACE YET
IN SIGHT
CONFERENCE AT VEREENIGING
STILL CONTINUES IN
SESSION.
NO BASIS FOR OPTIMISTIC FEEL.
ING
Some Say There Is a Hitch in Peace
Coating Process Is Going on,

throughout south Africa OF the Opu-
mistic feeling i'm regard to the peace
negotiations is hardly based on solid
facts. The protractiOn of the confer
enCe at Nereeniging is not necessarily
a hopeful situation.
The delegates to the conference, al
though they have abandoned their hope
OF securing independence still have
many points of difference with the
Government, while an obstinate minor
ity continues to regard the resumption
o. hostiities as the best outcome of the
present situation and at any moment
these points of difference may be ac-
Cenuuated into a refusal to continue the
negotiations.
1t is most unlikely that those who are
in favor of peace will throw up the
sponge so long as a decent minority is
DESTROYS of continuing the struggle,
and all these opposing elements must
be taken into account before it is pos
sible to give any sort of prediction as
to the issue of the present negotiations.
Forty-siX Beers, with their wagons
and cattle, surrendered at BalmOral,
Transvaal yesterday
LONDON, May 26.-The Daily Mail
this morning says the Cabinet Council
to be held today will decide upon points
of detail, mostly of a financial nature,
which have been raised by the Beers
in the peace negotiations. Great Brit
aims decision in the matter then will
be communicated to the BOer confer
ence by the delegates at Pretoria, says
the paper, and being the best obtain
able terms they will almost surely be
accepted. The result should be an
nounced officially either Thursday or
FRIDAY of this Wpnk nrnha hlU Fri
day, the day upon which King Ed
wards birth is celebrated. Peace is
quite certain, says the Daily Mail, and
the delegates at Pretoria are only en-
gagged in endeavoring to sugar-coat the
pill for the Nereeniging conference to
swallow.
The Daily Mail says further: Our
dispatches from Pretoria assert that
numerous communication are passing
between Lords Kitchener and Miner in
South Africa and London.
Lord Kitchener, although he is still
full of energy, is much aged in appear
ance as a result of the severe and con-
tinuous strain which he has undergone.
The consensus of opinion is that the
recent negotiations have proved Lord
Kitchener to be a great diplOmatist as
well as a great soldier.
II Is ulllNulN " tlBplVNliNN NiiN Aii''S
nitude of the difficulties Lord Kitchen
er has had to contend with. The Boer
leaders are all deeply impressed with
his personality and trust hi mimplcit-
ly.
1T is understood that Lord Miner,
the British High Commissioner in
South Africa, has gracefully admitted
that the ultimate credit for the accom-
plishment of the great task Is due TO
Lord Kitchener"
LONDON, May 27.-Just before Par
lament rose, after midnight last night,
rumor reached the lObbies that a
hitch had occurred in the peace nego-
tiations Nothing official concerning
this rumor could be ascertained, but
the dispatch to the Associated Press
from Pretoria in which it was stated
that the prevalence throughout South
Africa of the optimistic feeling in re-
gard to the peace negotiations was
hardly based upon solid facts, may be
regarded as an indication that such a
hitch has occurred. Little information
from Pretoria has been able recently to
pass the censor there.
That the Government yesterday fully
anticipated a speedy conclusion OF
peace is believed to be shown by the
postponement from yesterday until
Friday or later of the budget bill in the
committee stage, with the view, as was
frankly admitted on the Government
side of the House, of enabling the bud
get to be recast in the event that peace
is secured.
The tax on grain has proved so un-
popular throughout the country and
has had such an unexpected effect in
reuniting the Liberal party with a
most effective election cry that there is
little doubt the Government will well
come an excuse to drop it. Another
strong reason for the desire to do away
with this tax is the effect it has had
in the colonies, where it has been re-
garded as an opportunity to demand
preferential treatment-a demand
which will be strongly pressed at the
coming conference of colonial premiers
in LondOn-and which is likely to cause
the Government much difficulty by
emphasizing a sharply defined diverg-
ence of opinion in the Cabinet. There
the Chamberlain party is advocating
"ZollVerein" policy and the retention
of the grain tax, while the Balfour par
ty advocates just the reverse. Sir
Michael Hicks Beach, the Chancellor
of the Exchequer, is said to be quite
willing to surrender the tax on grain.
THE HAGUE, May est is said in
Boer circles here that the peace pro-
posals made to the conference in the
TIansvaal include the condition that
the Beers in the field be allowed to
consult with the BOer delegates in Eu-
rope before a definite settlement is
reached. 1t is declared, also upon the
same authority that the British Gov
eminent refused May 23d to accede to
this request.
KAU LAND WANTED.
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