BOER AND KAFFIR.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 17 April 1901, Page 3

BOER AND KAFFIR.

As illustrating the strong feeling of the Boers on the Kaffir question of tho future in South Africa, and how powerfully it may have influenced the Boer leaders in refusing to come to terms for peace, we quote the following from a late number of the Spectator:—"The Daily Telegraph contains an account of a conversation with some Boer prisoners on the way to Ceylon which deserves special attention, as showing the real feeling of the Boers. 'You will return,' said the writer in the Daily Telegraph, 'to find it all peaceful, and will live happily ever after under the Union Jack.' 'Never can we live under that (lag was the emphatic chorus of reply. ' You treat the blacks who are savages and murderers, as equals. In the colony you will allow them to walk on the side walks. One might even have to sit next a black woman in church!' When you get down to the rock-bed of the true and ansophisticated Boer's anti-British feeling it is always this. Ho wants, likes the Southerner beforo the war, to be able to to ' wallop his nigger,' and the dread, and indeed the knowledge that he will

not be ablo t 6 do this if the British win makes him ready to enduro anything and risk everything. It is the thought of the nigger on the side-walk that maddens him, and the destruction of tne Republic or the lowering of the Vierkleur."