... t4-ERA PRtOSPECT It must be rtat the Compauny has commenced its c areer at a tie of gener depressin, due paiy to the Sorth Africa war, and parfly to ?? reverlaton sn connion with the past ms t of some of the prsn- cipal Westrahsan mines These citnes have ...

... secretaries, have comramunicatedwith the War Office, complaining that the restriction on the use t of ed words in telegraphing to South Africa rad E e4 not yet been withdrawn. In reply, the Secretary of State for War has wired the assocation as biU follws ...

... Dundonald's absence in South Africa, he L being the transferrer of the gun carnage patent', slightly delayed matters. The severe tests to o which the company's guns and the latest gun car- riage had been subjected in South Africa had re- suited satisfactorilv ...

... Far East, Aus- I tralasia, and East Africa. Attention is-scalled de, Lsto the increase of traffic with the United States, , to the famine in India, to the rise :in the price I of coals, and to the war in South Africa.I Sixty-six new vessels have been added ...

... carried o I forward to the next account. X . The Chairman, in mowing the adoption of the a Ireport, referred to the war in South Africa, and 9 said that they must review the effect which it J' had so far produced on commerce, Stock Ex- s change securities ...

... up, and a terrible war had ensued. Brighter prospects had dawned upon uls now, and we can look forward hopefully to a cessation of hostilities and a renewal of activity in the crreat mining and other industries of vast South Africa. It was with no ordinary ...

... e- public will be despatohed to-:nzz, io ;Ci .Nile at Lisbon.G.P.O., 10 45 v'In. Cape, &c.-'The mails for 1a-1ena and I-.. Africa will be despanohed to-n'et. z o ante from Southampton by tne eoet9 vegam Castle-O.P.O.. 10 45 p.m,; 5UP0. despakda, 2 a-r ...

... time of peace. What every he Englishman. desired was a lating peae. (Hear, c Wl hear.) He hoped the war would lead to the d consolidation of South Africa, so that it would beome one of the most prosperous of the c die British colonies. Regrding this society ...

... increased from 17s. per ton to 21s., I S ith every indication that it will go higher. E LhHere we see at once the effect of the war, I of the preparations for which gave an enormous r impetus to our iron and steel trades, as im- ed nes orders were received ...

... were making nefa great mistake in treating China as a decaying tedd-empire. Before the Japanese war the strength men- of China was overreted and since the war the nations were in danger of underrating that IiCstrength. It was thought that China was con- ...

... ;the country was not at war with one oi i-no great Powers, and our communications n5t5 nf,- threatened and our food and other could be as quickly repicnished as in 'eace. Tho question of increasing our ;03 re.crvis after t.he war rwas over must be -e es ...

... South Africa borses and the siege trains which N nd were expected to play an important part in the B taking of Pretoria, but which events have since th proved were not required for that purpose. On n d the 5th December of last year, when the war fever ...