Show HAnnOND IHPROVING I Executive Council Said to Show Clemency LONDON May 3A dispatch tONthe Times from Pretoria says the executive council of the South African republic is seriously considering the advisability advisabil-ity of avoiding the inconvenience entailed I en-tailed upon the mining industry by imprisoning the reformers The dispatch adds the health of the prisoners is improving The Daily Dispatch has a dispatch from Pretoria saying J H Hammond is improving He is allowed to take drives with his jailor The prisoners are treated as firstclass misdemeanants misdemean-ants From personal interviews I ascertain that all of the members of the executive execu-tive council are inclined to show the I utmost leniency to the prisoners The I disposition of the government in fact is satisfactory to all concerned The Daily News says I is understood under-stood that President Krueger has not yet exhausted his collection of interesting inter-esting telegrams The Standard Conservative believes that unless Cecil Rhodes disproves his connection with the cipher telegrams the Liberals will demand his removal from the privy council I The Chronicle says I is believed that Cecil Rhodes and Alfred Beft both of them directors of the South African Chartered company will bear between them the entire cost of the Jameson raid the legal expenses of Jamesons trial and < the indemnity to the Transvaal As Mr Rhodes profit for the past year has been about 500 000 and as Beit has had one of hia best years neither is likely to be ruined |