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He seems to have assumed that the farms were to be of 6,000 acres, and he gave it as his opinion that in a country so well adapted both for grazing and agriculture, nothing like this quantity of land is requisite to constitute a farm; and his belief is that a large reduction would be acquiesced in. Our information is that the Boers themselves had recognised the necessity of cur- tailing the size of the farms, and that possibly this curtailment might amount to their reduction to 4,000 acres; but Dr. Einwald would apparently regard 4,000 as still excessive; and on no tenable theory can there be as many as 800 Boers having any sound claim to land.
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What he has said as to the Boer township at St. Lucia Bay has already been mentioned, but may be added that he spoke well of St. Lucia Bay as a landing-place, and pronounced it as good as Algoa Bay, where trade flourishes. Whatever the value of this opinion, it may not be out of place to remember that he is now tion is that at repeating it at Berlin.
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certain times of the year it is His words and manner appeared quite satis- choked by sand factory, as regards his full recognition of the and valueless; st British right to control Zululand, and the inten- other times it is tion of Germany to leave to this country the practicable for control both on the coast and inland, if she is trade.-E F. willing to exercise it; but he none the less conveyed the impression that he and other Germans were not inclined, if they could help it, to allow their money and labour to be wasted in consequence of our failing to establish any
control.
THE ATTITUde of Natal.
In Appendix D, will be found a series of resolutions passed by the Natal Council in favour of the extension of British rule over Zululand. Resolutions in the same sense have been passed by the Aborigines Protection Society and by numerous individuals and public bodies in Natal.
E. FAIRFIELD.
Downing Street,
January 1886.
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