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DELAGUA BAY.
bis duly to son that the Transvaal lines were sun to the best advantage of the Transvaal His The storm centre of South Africa Just now duties were certainly conflicting, and he did all can be locali ed at Dela.oà Bay, and, fortunate he could by amalgamating the Transvaal and ly, the winds are not fanned by Ballena, but by Orange River railways The question now, le some more peaceful goddess of industry, But, whether the railway systems of all four South nevertheless, they are boisterous enough and African States cannot be smalgamated and the deserve strict attention from the political earnings of all the public railways * pooled meteorologist. For it is really around Delagon and devoted to the uses of abe respective Bay that the great an l'absorbing question of States in a certato fair proportion.
Bio the closer union of the South African States labor, hoc'opus out! It may at once bo remarked, turns. Let us sea how this has come aboat. The that this taskhasboon made more difficult by the late Sie Bariis Frere, whose political sagacity basty and premature gift of responsible gov lives after him on early every vexed and ernment; showered upon the Orange River and contentious South African question; once ex Transvaal Colonies. All were agreed that such pressed an opinion that the best diplomatists gift was bound to come, and the Unionist was the best geographer--or something very party were quite ready to acknowledge this, much to ibis effact. He forosaw, as a geographer but it is obvious that under existing circum- and as a traveller (for Six Dante bad gone stances responsible government has accentuals to Zanzibar in the Enchantress on his well-ed political differences and strengthened car- knówo mission to Suyd Borghash), that South|tain artificial distinctions on the political map Africio barbours were rate and that De of South Africa which Lord Salboine dapiores, fagon Bay was an exceptionally favourable in his memorandum. Could not "Responsible anchorage/
Government" have, waited upon such a para...” mount question as the "Unification of South Africas Railways"? The direct action of the Imperial Government, especially as it could have been exerted upon Portugal and the posi tion at Delagoa Bay, would have been, mada more easy and straightforward.
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In blu recent memorandum (1957) Lord Sel
Not to dwell upon, past history, whether em- bodied in Frere memoranda, thirty years ago, the MacMahon Award, the Morier negotiations at Lisbon, and the Portuguese diplomacy, which has certainly varied if not "wobbled" with the political status of the Transvaal itself, from time to time, the fact remains that Delagoa Bay, being the natural port of the goldfields, barne emphasises the railway problem by means occupies now a leading position amongst South of statistics. It must be remembered that to may be likened to a gigantic cuckoo fel, not of over 9:0 miles is involved; from Port Eliza African parts. Indeed, Lourenzo Marques reach Johannesburg from Cape Town a journey.
by the mother bird, Portugal, but by sach beth, over zcomiles; from Natal, 400 miles; from foster-mothers as the four South African Stales. Delagon Bay, about 350 miles. The distances As a natural barbour Delagoa Bay is about from the southera ports to the Rand are indeed forty miles ucarer, as the crow flies, to Johan-crushing, and they have proved themselves so. The cast of Docking, and repair work, will be found to compare favourably with that Desburg than Durban, its advantages are so The transference of traffic from the British ports of any port in the world,
great that, while Natal politicians, since the to the Portuguess port has been sudden. In days of the far-seeing Sir H. Escombe, have November, 1902, over 29,000 tons of merchan....... spent huge sums of money to deepaoing, and dise for the Transvaal entered by the Cape -scouring their anchorage and thereby incurred porta. In the mouth of August, 1906, baroly large public debis, the happy owner of De four years afterwards, this had fallen to under lagoa Bay have been obliged to spend com Soco tous. No wonder the merchants of the paratively small sums. The Portuguese owe Cape Risko,are wringing their hands over the it largely to British and American capitalists new roule, lo Natal the story is practically that Delagon Bay is what.It is. Nay, more; the same. In November, 1901, over 21,00 they owe it in the first instance to foreigners tons of merchandise for the Transvaal catered that the narrow, strip between Delagoa Bay and by Durban ; in August, 1905, this had fallen 10 ile Sebombo Mountains, and so," to the under 11,000 tons. The foreign port, Delagoa Transvaal, was spanned by a railway. Sitting Bay, had jumped up. from $14,000 tons to at the receipt of custom, the Portuguese 21,000 tons. officials, favoured by what must be really called the lucky verdict of Marshal MacMahoo, have reaped where they have 'never sowD. At the same time Portugal and England have been, and we hope always will continue to be, very good friends.
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At first, as in the case of Kimberley, the merchandise required by the Rand was brought by oz waggons from the nearest terminás on the Natal and Cape Colony lines. To begin with the advantage'seemed to lin with Natál 'as the nearest port. But Cape Colony was "aive to the situation, and in 1883 and 1891 made arrangcheats with the then Orange Free State, throwing a railway across it (okritory, and by May, 1892, was unloading ut. Viljoen's Drift goods from trucks, which Cape mer chants bad loaded, up at Cape Town
These superb steamers Carrying the French Mall are fitted throughout with Electric Light docks. By September, 1891, both "Port od Fans Rod word specially bullt for this trade. Excellent 'culaina.
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i proparation laungsstionably one ufsberat room and reliablo l'atous Modíctuen erat ini, Bucod, and has, we understand, kremu dowd ju tha - Continental Hospitals by Ricord, Montan, Jobrit, Valpon, Maloneuve, the well-knong China's aac, and jaded by ali who senrègarded as autho rities so each matters, clsing the coleblo Lallemand, and Rosz, by whown if was some sima since uniformly adopted, na shat it is worthy tha attention of those who regulu puch a comady we think thwaisao doubt. From the time of Aristot downwarda, a potent agrat în, ibs remous? of, these diseases Eao (tika she famed philosopher's slose) been the object of search of some kopeťa), - generous minda; and far beyond the more powerwi I such could ever have been discovered—of tran -musling the buss metále into gold is surely the dip covery of a ready so potent autoseplen'ah the fal Ang coorglas of the confryced road in the oma paany and in the other so efectúally, sprodily and sažalj to capel free the system without the aid, ne vyen the knowledge, of wcond party, the polios of ¡ acquired as lõherited diwasă în all chest proteon": *LOCKURA KA İNKve do faint or trace bekfod, "auch (a)
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Rand. For the moment Cape Colony's arrange Cape Colony, ports, were "linkęd, to the
ment with the Orange Free State gave her a practical monopoly. The ox waggons which lumbered heavily from Delagoa Bay, on the one hand, and the Nalal border, on the other, were doomed-they could not compete with the iron horse.
But neither Natal zor Delagoa Bay was far behind in this race for the Hand, and arrange. ments were made by the Transvan! for linking
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The Natal drop in not as bad as the Cape Calopy drop, and it looks as if the fight with Dalagoa Bay-if it comes to this-must be made at Natal. Recourse may be had, as Lord Selborne polata out, to legislation which will check a natural tendency to import by the nearest (but still a foreign) route. For this Landsucy; as now exhibited in South Africa, in an unnatural tendency, and bars the way to South African union and progress. There was a similar crisis in the history of the United states when. George Washington, rather than ́ use American trade to develop a Spanish port ou bis froutier, was prepared to change the coussa of nature itself and to convey the traffic of the Mississippi by canals to the sen, eastwards, to the Potomac. The first duty of patriotism in towards one's own country. In the case of South Africa the four Bouth African. States should arrange between themselves how
al costs, even if the present morfus vivendi to be the carriers of their own impons at
with Portugal his, to be denounced. This la another question now made more difficult by the exclusion of Chinese labour and the policy of the present Government Pall Mall Gastle,
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both with the Netherlands Railway, via Dels CHINA PROVIDENC LOAN AND
"goa Day, and with the Natal system al Laing's. Nek. By December, 1895, goods, were "de livered at Johannesburg from railway trucks, which had travelled, not simply from the Cape Colony ports, but also from Port Durban'and Delagoa Bay. Cape Colony, which had done so much and had expended so much, began to feel the pinch. State railways jo the Colonies earn at times a good percentage (the Cape railways earned eight per cent), but the earn- inge so acquired are needed to pay the interest on loans, and the interest on loans is a some what imperative matter. The Transvaal piso, under Kruger and his favourites, began to take even a commercially hostile view in 1895 of the Cape -Colony, of which the closing of the Drifts was a most notable sign,
The Netherlands Railway was, beginning to excrcite its most mischievous and disintegrat." .ipg itfluence ca, South African politici. Even the Boers of the Western Province of the Cape were aghast at the selfish action of the Transval and the policy of their own kith and kin. The old districts of the Paarl, Stel- lenbosch, Wellington, and Worcester saw tho Transvaal, in its halcyon days of prosperity, turn away from them, and this, too, at a time, when, owing to tho, devastations of the phyl- loxera, the old Cape Colony districts needed a maskët for their fruit and vegetables at Joban ne borg. The disintegrating power of rival railway systems could not have a stronger or mere p'quant i illustration than in this incident of the closing of the Drifts. It illustrates also the innate salfibers of political States which in their comparative political conago, dentre to assume too prominent a zöle. The Trans- tvaal of Kruger days wished to read a lesson 10
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their weaker brethren, still under malign in- fluences down to the south. They were made to fiel that the "hub" "of the South American universe was at Pretoria
· The unification of sil the South African' rail- 'ways'ls a condition precedent to South Africa : union or confederation. During the Boer war the railways of the Orange River and Transvasi Colonies were in, theʻ banda, cf ibo. millitary officers. Lord Miloer had a difficolt, matter to adjust when bis task of civit, administration began. As High Commissioner of South Africa he was interested to secure a fair share of "iho traffic to the goldfields through Cape Colony ports and Natal as Governor of the Drangs River Colony he had their interests to serve and lastly, xe Governor of the Transvaal it wa
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