On the 19th of August, the State Secretary wrote to the British Agent making iis alternative proposal to Hor Majesty's Vega were to commence operations. The creating how war should be aged against Government former is quite a little man and left- the Republic.
At the same time, al- " (1) The Government are willing to re-Juanded, but as active as a cat, and Eshould though this was not yet known, Lord! commend to the Volksraad and the people say that his reach was quite out of pro-Iseley had laid his plans before the five years' retrospective franchise as proportion to his height. Vega is a man of ish Government for the conquest and posed by His Excellency the High Com-middle size, of boyish appearance, but I seizure of the two Republics. missioner on June Ist, 1899. am told he has turned thirty. He is At the commencement of July, thie (9) The Government are further will-handicapped by being short-sighted, and loaders of the Afrikander Party, Messrs. ing to recommend to the Volksraad that fought in spectacles, which, by the way, Hofmeyer and Herhvldt, went from Cape eight new seats in the First Volksraad, often required adjusting.
Town to Bloemfontein and Dircetly the words " Allez, Messieurs," I'retoria to persuade the Government still aa, if necessary, also in the Second Volks-Wit Nratersrand, thus, with the two sitting aad, be given to the population of the wera, pronounced the two'men fell en further to. simpli the new Franchise gard, the Frenchman with his legs well Law in such a way as to make the seven members for the Goldfields, giving to the bent under him and his guard very low—years' clause retros pective: so that every }opulation thereof ten representatives in
arm extended and the rapier almost hori- ar once; those who had been six years his band on his knee—the Italian with his sri the Republic could obtain the franchise Peseta of in Cole of this Rein fact, at times ho seemed to be resting one who had spent seven years or more ity-si: din future the
lic shall not fall below the proportion von tal. It was an exciting moment, and ¢he country would bare to wait one year fourth of the total. in fact we wore kept at forer heat all the jure in order to alain the franchise; "9. the now burghers shall equally time, for as the-men warmed to their too who had spent with the old' burghers be entitled to vote work they seemed to forget the buttons the country must wait four years more, the election for State-President and stere no longer on, and if one or two of and so on. Their suggestions found a Commandant-General. the lunges and ripostes had gone home the ready hearing among the members of the This Government will always be hilt. Eventually the Frenchman sucoced- ine} blade would have been buried up to the Government and the Volksraad, who were -ropared to take into consideration such 4 din tempting hie adversary to attack;2c'dur togretKayere" More Concessions him en carte, and riposting like a flash of him en carte, a On the 18th of July, probably after lightning inflicted a wound on the jaying been informed by Messrs. Hofshoulder, which put an end to the fight. meyer and Herholdt of the result of their The next couple to take the floor were jyi-sion, the Cape Ministry issued a note the famous professor, Merignac, and Pes- {Y"S0t sina, in mes. To me this encounter was quite ly Jeast. occasion for intervention on the lo-aged Italian maitre that, in their opinion, there existed not the conviction
painful, for, much as T love to sco Meti- art of England in the internal affairs of with—a father of nine children—was not fence, the foeman he had to deal the Republic. worthy of his steel.
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