of the judges; (8) liberal and comprehensive education; (9) efficient civil service, with adequate provision for pay and pension; (10) free trade in South African products.  That is what we want.  There now remains the question which is to be put before you at the meeting of the 6th January, viz., How shall we get it?  To this question I shall expect from you an answer in plain terms according to your deliberate judgment.

  CHARLES LEONARD,
  Chairman of the Transvaal National Union.

APPENDIX K.

THE CASE OF THE CHIEFTAINESS TOEREMETSJANI

On the reports which have appeared the case or cases of Toeremetsjani v.  P.A.  Cronje, Jesaja v.  P.A.  Cronje and D.J.  Schoeman, Segole v.  P.A.  Cronje and J.A.  Erasmus, have attracted, as well they might, a good deal of attention.  The following resume and commentary were compiled by a legal gentleman who was present during the trial, but not professionally employed in it.

The facts revealed in the evidence (writes our correspondent) speak pretty well for themselves, but they were brought out into lurid prominence in the cross-examination of Commandant Cronje by Mr. Justice Jorissen.  In order to make the case quite clear, it is as well to state for the benefit of those who are not intimately acquainted with things in the Transvaal that this Mr. Cronje, who is now the Superintendent-General of Natives, is the same Cronje concerning whose action in regard to Jameson’s surrender there was so much discussion.  After the Jameson Raid, President Kruger, pursuing his policy of packing the Executive with his own friends, decided to put Cronje upon the Executive, for which purpose he induced General Joubert to resign his position as Superintendent-General of Natives.  The President’s intention becoming known to Raad members, the strongest possible objection was expressed to this course as being wholly unconstitutional and in direct conflict with the Grondwet; the President in the first place having no right to add to the number of Executive members and no authority for appointing any person to fill a vacancy if there were one.  Notice of motion was promptly given in the Raad to instruct the Executive not to take the proposed course, as the Raad felt that the privilege and power of appointing members on the Executive rested with them alone.  Twenty-four hours’ notice was requisite to bring a matter up for discussion before the Raad.  President Kruger hearing that notice had been given promptly called a meeting of the Executive and appointed Mr. Cronje in defiance of the notice of motion, so that when the motion came on for discussion on the following day he replied to the Raad’s instruction that it was too late to discuss the matter, the appointment having been made.  Mr. Cronje, therefore, appears on the scene on this occasion without much to prejudice the unbiassed reader in his favour.  The circumstances