Two most important Blue Books have been issued this week, one containing the report of the Transvaal Concessions Committee, and the other the report of Sir David Barbour on the Finances of the Transvaal and the Urange River Col The fest deals mainly with the Netherlands South Afri Railway Company and the {Dynamite Comeession. In regard to the Railway Company much of the overwhelming evidence "f the direct part they t in support of our enemies had already been j published; and no one will context the Justice of the decision that the concession Shall be cancelled, though as an act oF grace some enmpensation is to be made to shareholders who were innocent of complicity in their directors' misdoing. The dynamite concession is also ta be cancelled, and the concessionsires will in future have to carry on their business with only sich advantages as they may derive from being first in the field. They will no longer have any monopoly.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.