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Show I C0NYNGHA3YE GREENE SAFE. Said Goodby to Krttger and Left the Transvaal. I ( ape Town. Oct. 12. Ne-ws has been rc-eivod here that the British diplo-' i matic agent in the Transvaal, Mr. ! Conyngham Greene. paid his formal farewell visits to President Kruger and I the high Boer officials at Pretoria last j evening. In the Cape house of assembly today Premier Schre iner made an impassioned impas-sioned appeal to the country and the pi-ess to preserve the peace. It is j asserted that Mr. Schreiner refused to sign, the proclamation of the governor I of Cape Colony, Sir Alfred Milner, de-j de-j daring all persons abetting the enemy I in a state of war against Great Britain to be guilty of treason. |