NEWS OF THE WEEK.
AGAIN there is no war news of any importance to chronicle,—except a telegram received on Friday announcing that Kruitzinger's small commando had broken through Colonel De Lisle's cordon. The matter is tiresome, but not serious. Meantime peace negotiations have been going on throughout the week between Sir Alfred Milner and General Botha, whose force is protected by an armistice. No information has been made public as to the nature of the terms offered, and all the rumours in the Press are merely guesses. We do not doubt, however, that the Government has been liberal, as it clearly ought to be, in regard to personal terms of amnesty, but that it refuses to grant any political concessions, except to render it clear to the Boers that ultimately they will be as free and sell-governing as are all other white People in the Empire, and will enjoy a liberty within the Empire which, as Sir Wilfrid Laurier points out, is as perfect as that in any Republic.
