Show I PERTAINING TO TRANSVAL A notification appears to the effort t that all abiebodled British subjects aro liable to bo conscripted for service In the Pand Killes A lire at the Cherbourg aretal has destroyed de-stroyed several workshops and a number of historic relics Including Napoleons launch I ho damage done Is estimated at 2000009 c francs The SecmUtry of Slate for tho Colonies Mr Joseph Phiimbcrlaln announced In the Homo of Commons that civil govern mont will shortly be established In tho Transviuj and Orange River colony t The Parliamentary Secretary for tho Foreign plllce replying tOlL question in the fommoits salf the Governmenl hnd not notlfiiul anv I foreign power of the annexntlon of the Transvual or Orange Pico Slate > Owing to the at tempts of sympathizers to communicate with th Boer prisoners at Greenpolnt camp Cane Culony Maxim hunK have bciii phtuid In position on tho surrounding heights in readiness for a dlHlurbancc Heidelberg Transvaal rnnsnal colony reports the Boers aro driving the Hoer women and children from their hoiius because their kinsmen refuse to fight nnv longer Forty women and children Illclad and hungry were brought In by the British In Johannesburg In pursuance of tho rcconcontrsido POll the authorities are preparing accommodations on I he race course for 1000 people from farms In the vicinity of the Rand Tho burghers will watched be herded in a laager and will be strictly |