Show PERTAINING TO THE TRANSVAAL Pretoria dispatches l assert that tho fortifications forti-fications there have been extended In view of a long siege It Is stated that Lord Roberts Is going to Capetown to meet Lady Roberts Michael Davltt arrived at Lorenzo Marques Mar-ques March 24th There am rumors that tho Boers arc In trenching heavily at Krooustadt and BIr Jar berg and that Lord Roberts and Ell Redvors Duller will bu strongly opposed Cecil Rhodess controversies with tho military authorities luivo armed his enemies ene-mies with resources for renewing their warfare upon him when he arrives In England 1 1 Tho Boers are using natives from tho mines to construct trenches around Johannesburg Jo-hannesburg Tho mines are expected to shut down owing to the military demand for kafflr labor Sickness among tho Boer nIsoners on the transports la Increasing Three deaths ocrurretl March Stith Tim bodies wero burled by the British with tim Transvaal Hug on the coffins A St Petersburg dispatch asserts hat tIme Czarina Is responsible for tho delay in tho Russian answer to tho Kruger Stoyn intervention appeal She has been striving to prevent a proBoer reply The Australian Premiers have Joined Inn In-n cablegram to Mr Chamberlain declaring declar-ing that It Is undesirable to conclude peace In South Africa except on trirmH guaranteeing the absolute supremacy of British rule t Ruins aro general 1 throughout South Af rica and rivers which have been dry for years arc being Hooded Man CnmlS aro transformed Into swamps ThH will still moro militate against any Immediate British advance At a meeting of tho Bund held at Puart Mr Hargrove tho chief speaker prophc sled another war within six years unli > s Indepcndcnco was prantwl and Assemblyman Assembly-man Marias characterized tho war as a coniWntlon of the Jameson raid Gen White has boon presented with an address by the Mayor and Municipal Council of Cal town assuring him of their sympathy In his enforced homego ing and declaring that the record of the siege or Ladysmlth are among tho bright cat annals of thf nation The strength of the Boers In tho final campaign In the Transvaal Is estimated bv cool observers at 150W but these figures fig-ures sire considered too low by London military authorities They assume that Prwldcnl Kruger will have 3W burghera hi firms for tho lighting In tho last ditch |