7 FEBRUARY 1903, Page 2

From Kimberley Mr. Chamberlain went to visit Paardeberg, and thence

trekked to Bloemfontein, visiting and conversing with all the farmers along his route. Three miles outside Bloemfontein Mr. Chamberlain and his party, at the end of a forty-two-mile drive, were met by a great concourse of people on foot, bicycles, and horses, who cheered the visitors as they passed along the line, and then, falling in behind the carriages, accompanied them into the town. As a pleasing evidence of the improved state of feeling, Reuter's correspondent notes that the three sections of Boers—the "hands-uppers," the National Scouts, and those who fought to the end—have decided to join together in the presentation of addresses and petitions,—a combination which would have been impossible a few months ago.