... the present state of affairs in South Africa. :awn was everything to encourage them. What thlty. Bad lost in doubtful friends they had gained a hundred times over in Canada and Australia, and even in South Africa Itself. If they proceeded with perseverance ...

... THE RUBIES OF SOUTH AFRICA. The yield of the Kimberley diamond mines is said to average, in normal circumstances, about fifty-five hundred carat. a day, or ninety-fire per cent. of the world's diamonds. It is said that. so far, nine and a hef tons, worth ...

... FIGHTING IN WEST AFRICA. ATTACK ON A GERMAN COLONY. The mail steamer Volts, of the Elder, Dempster line, from South-west Africa, brings news that on September Z 1 about four thousand natives made a descent on the coot town of Kribi. Kribi is the German ...

... THE WAR. Every now and again some despondent newspaper r-presentative in South Africa sends home a depressing review of the general situation. In sober truth saes the 0.004, the general situation is too vast for any one correspondent to deal with. In ...

... TO THE TROOPS IN SOUTH AFRICA. An Army Order WAR Played from the War Office. on Saturday, announcing that a war gratuity will he issued to all the troops, whether Imperial or colonial, employed in the operations in South Africa. The gratuity ...

... to the eatatdistimeut in South, Africa of a factory fir its production. The small number of lumkrut•tcnn which bad occurred in Cape Colony had dissipated the apprehension ri an economic crisis iu consequence of the war . Indeed, it is urged that the ...

... THE WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA. THE SITUATION. Mn appreciable change can be said to have taken place in the military situation, through the µ•are mission art Messrs. Schalk Burger and Reitz; Lord Kitchener.a operations are being continin-d, and the Boers, as ...

... Britain is at war, they had previously said, and then you will see how much the loyalty of your Colonists is worth. Great Britain is now at war, and so far from there being the slightest soupcon of disloyalty in the Colonies outside South Africa, the sons ...

... MINISTERS AND THE WAR. Ph:cunning the state of affairs in South Africa the CAttlook points out that a war which was to be completed in three months is now in its seventeenth month, and liritish sovereignty over the conquered territories is still little ...

... THE WAR, It is impossible to think of the possible occurrences of 19110 wit] t reference to the present war in South Africa lint we have been taught from youth up, that there is never a cloud wit' t a silver lining ; and already the burden which is put ...

... FROM SOUTH AFRICA. LETTERS FROM CORPL. W. DIXON AND LCE.-CORPL. W. JOHNSON. A lengthy letter haw been received by a friend at itowuess, from Corpl. Walter Dixon, one of the first detachment of local Volunteers who went out for active service in South ...

... OUR POLICY IN SOUTH AFRICA. A most unfortunate I. ymptom of the folly which governs our policy in South Africa, says the Spoken is the relegation of the colonial force there to the command of Sir Gordon Sprigg, who pro. with 18,000 town guards and 7 ...