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Kaikoura Star, Volume XIX, Issue 2053, 30 March 1900, Page 2

On the British Intelligence Dept’s. * Sketch map of the Country round Ladysmith * Spionkop is not placed in its proper position 1 British ignotßbce ’in this matter provoked much comment in the military Press of the Continent. It is said that Lord Beaconsfield a few weeks before his death, in 1881, spoke very strongly to a member ot the Gladstone Government, during a private conversation, concerning the stopping of the Transvaal war after the reverse of Majuba Hill. The Gon* servative leader, according to the story, shook his head and remarked :— * We might easily have vanquished the pigmy i we may have to fight the giant in twenty years’ time.’ It is all very well to talk of peace. There are two kinds of peace. Peace after Majuba has given us the war. Peace after Waterloo has given us nearly a century of peace often precarious, but still peace with France. If we do not show that it is dangerous to quarrel with us, we shall be quarrelled with while we have any* thing worth taking.— Sketch. Lord Roberts is exceedingly fond of music. The members of his staff on various occasions have got up impromptu concerts to please him, and in one campaign the General was always serenaded when be retired to rest. Seddon has informed the Premier of N.B. Wales that N.Z. wishes to obt'uu certain amendments in Commonwealth Bill in a friendly manner, bat otherwise there is no opposition to it. He claims it would have been out of place to have interfered while the Bill was before Australian people.