THE VISIT TO CAPETOWN.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11505, 11 February 1903, Page 7

THE VISIT TO CAPETOWN.

(Received February 10th, 10.17 p.m.) CAPETOWN, February 10. Mr Cham]>erlain will receive Hoffmeyer, Dr. Smartt, and Henry De Villiers at Capetown. A despatch from London dated January 3rd, published in the "New York Anglican," said: — Mr Chamberlain is making a splendid impression in South Africa. All th e despatches from tho Cape, whether to the .\linust«rialist or the Opposition journals, are agreed ac to this, ihe prophecies ol the Liberal and Radical Pivss, that he would undo by his imprudent speeches all that he iuij;ljt aeeonip.i«h in hts persona! interviews, have been falsified by the events, lor it is his speeches tnat are carrying the day for tiie Colonial Seeret-ury'e programme. Even the "Daily News" admits that he u> displaying an unexcelled tact and a remarkable astuteness as a pacifer, and that he has only to continue ac he ha« begun if he would completely revolutionise for the better, both the Boer and the colonial feelings. Judging ixoin the too nfeagre abstracts of hie utterances in Natal, where he has spoken three times, Mr Chamberlain's plan is to convince the colonials and to, conciliate the Boers afterwards. The convincing process involves showing to the loyal element that their highest and paramount interests are endangered by fostering petty local jealousies. That he is working wondera along this line is evident from the changed tone of the Press of Natal and Cape Colony. Two months ago the "Times of Natal" reflected local opinion in a slashing article commenting unfavourably upon Lord Milner and the Colonial Office. "Neither at Pretoria, nor in London," eaid the writer, "does there seem to be any marked desire to compensate this colony, whose losses from war were in exoafls of thoee of any other loyalist territory, and it looks as if we Natolians were to be left to work our own salvation, with little or no help from those who ought to hare thought of us before any others."