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Show " BOER-ENVOYS DlRh WITH " HAY Washington, May 23. Secretary Hay : today entertained at luncheon the Boer , delegates now in Washington. J The affair was a purely personal com-' com-' pliment extended by the secretary and had not even a social significance. His 1 son, Adelbert Hay, the present United ': States consul at Pretoria, has been j treated with the greatest courtesy and I consideration by the Boers, not only j officially, but personally, and perhaps j it was a remembrance of this fact that j induced the secretary to endeavor to ' reciprocate in this way. ; The party was small. Besides the ! secretary and his family, there were present the delegates, Mrs. Fischer, wife of the leader of the delegation, Dr. Hill, the assistant secretary of state, and a few ladies, intimate friends of i the secretary's family, i Congressman Sulzer, after a consul-! consul-! tation with the Boer envoys, tonight announced that some time next week, . the exact date not having been deter-: deter-: mined on. the commissioners would : make a visit to Boston and after that I go west. ! Mr. Fischer, the spokesman of the ' delegation, pleaded a pressure of busi-j busi-j ness tonight when request, was made j to him for an interview regarding the Cape ' Town dispatch reporting that ' President Kruger had been advised by 'him to riirrender on the best terms i obtainable from Lord Roberts. He ' sent down word, however, that the '. slatemei't was an old. old one, having a; pearec -jom.c days ago, and that there was no basis fo. 't. |