... the pitiless plunderer's view In the pathless depths of the parched karroo. POEM ON SOUTH AFRICA, WRITTEN OVER SEVENTY YEARS AGO BY THOMAS PRINGLE In South Africa, unlike Australia and Canada, the foundations of its literature have been laid almost entirely ...

... He served in South Africa as chief press censor MRS. KENNETH MACLACHAN She is the wife of Captain Maclachan, Governor of Mafeking. She organised the performance of Mr. Pinero's play, The Money Spinner at the Comedy on behalf of the war funds w MISS VIOLET ...

... everywhere known as B.-P. From the very day that the War broke out, it was felt that so keen and smart an officer as the British Commandant at Mafeking could not fail to distinguish himself in South Africa; before the campaign had been in progress any appreciable ...

... House of Commons steeplechase in 1889. Lord Methuen is one of the very few generals who have remained in South Africa since the beginning of the war. He has always been a keen soldier and in 1884 raised a force known as Methuen's Horse for service in Bechuana- ...

... Lord Randolph Churchill. Her son, the 8th Duke, is on the Duke of Cornwall's staff during the empire voyage. He was out in Africa, where his sister's husband, Major Orr-Ewing, was killed. 33. Mr. Lionel Phillips is a partner in Wernher, Beit and Co. He ...

... the two men of the 1st Battalion Manchester Regiment who are to receive the Victoria Cross for conspicuous bravery in South Africa, as announced in the Gazette a short time since. The act of courage for which they were recommended is thus described: During ...

... Balfour knows more about tactics than many of the officers of the regular army and he is an authority on the use of the cycle in war, His profession is that of an architect. Like his brothers, Mr, Alfred and Mr. Gerald Balfour, he is tall and has a slight stoop ...

... Colonial troops will be employed to swell the procession, and the preference is to be given to men who have served in the war in South Africa. It must be added that only a small contingent from each Colony will be required. An association should be formed at ...

... nurses who have been in South Africa and to the men of the Central African Regiment who went through the Ashanti Campaign, and have been sight-seeing in London. Sir Harry Johnston's tribute to the efficacy of British rule in Africa is accompanied by some almost ...

... arrived in England from VI South Africa without the flourish of trumpets Wilson'1 °C B which has heralded the coming of man}' officials who have done more showy though not more useful service. Though his stay in South Africa was not a lengthy one, he accomplished ...

... attempts to reproduce something of English public school life in South Africa. Next to Eton and Charterhouse it has sent the largest number of old boys to the front in the piesent war, upwards of 300 in all, not including the ninety odd of the cadet corps ...

... mining in Mexico as a field for English capital has been, until recently, out of fashion. California, Australia, and South Africa have all in turn taken a foremost place but, if the truth were told, probably the riches of Mexico exceed even those of Kalgoorlie ...