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. President Kruger, at a meeting of the Raad on

Wednesday, declared that he could not in these troublous times say what was going to happen. " The other side had not conceded one tittle, and he could not give more. God had always stood by them. He did not want war, but he would not give away more. Although independence had once been taken away God bad restored it." It need not, however, be supposed from these words that any further concession is now impossible. Firmness is not a characteristic which Mr. Kruger has hitherto found associated with British Governments. As soon as he sees that our present firmness is more than a passing mood he will, we believe, listen to reason.

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