PRESIDENT AND GENERAL.

July 21.—­General JOUBERT tenders his resignation as Chairman of the Chicago Exhibition Committee.  He had written again and again to the President and State Secretary for an intimation of the Government’s intention with regard to the amount on the Estimates, but his communications were treated with silent contempt.

The PRESIDENT made a long speech, in which he said he felt great grief at being thus falsely charged by the General, who was also a member of the Executive.  Still he would only bless those who spitefully used him and would not blacken the General.

SECOND RAAD.

July 21.—­After the resolution had been taken on Mr. Van Niekerk’s proposition regarding compensation for claims not yet worked out (Clause 60 of Gold Law), the PRESIDENT was still speaking, and objecting to the recording of Van Niekerk’s objection to the passing of the Gold Law Clause Amendment, when Mr. ESSELEN called ’Order, Order!’ several times.

The PRESIDENT said he was insulted by Mr. Esselen and would withdraw unless he apologized.

The Raad adjourned, as Mr. Esselen refused.

FIRST RAAD.

LOCUST EXTERMINATION.

July 21.—­Mr. Roos said locusts were a plague, as in the days of King Pharaoh, sent by God, and the country would assuredly be loaded with shame and obloquy if it tried to raise its hand against the mighty hand of the Almighty.

Messrs. DECLERQ and STEENKAMP spoke in the same strain, quoting largely from the Scriptures.

The CHAIRMAN related a true story of a man whose farm was always spared by the locusts, until one day he caused some to be killed.  His farm was then devastated.

Mr. STOOP conjured the members not to constitute themselves terrestrial gods and oppose the Almighty.

Mr. LUCAS MEYER raised a storm by ridiculing the arguments of the former speakers, and comparing the locusts to beasts of prey which they destroyed.

Mr. LABUSCHAGNE was violent.  He said the locusts were quite different from beasts of prey.  They were a special plague sent by God for their sinfulness.

July 26.—­Mr. DE BEER attacking the railways said they were already beginning to eat the bitter fruits of them.  He was thinking of trekking to Damaraland, and his children would trek still further into the wilderness out of the reach of the iron horse.

August 16.—­Mr. DE BEER said he saw where all the opposition to duties came from.  It was English blood boiling to protect English manufacture.

1893.

June 21.—­A memorial was read from certain burghers of Waterberg about children beating their parents, and praying that such children should not be allowed to become officials of the State or sit in Volksraad!

Mr. DE BEER—­the Member for Waterberg—­who in the days of his hot youth is said to have given his father a sound thrashing, and is the one aimed at by the memorialists, denied all knowledge of the memorial.