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CA PE OF GOOD HOPE. [From the S. A. Register, June 15.]

The hi ig Jack left the Cape of Good Hope on the Ist of May, and arrived here yesterday with cargo and ten passengers. After the recent aruvals from South Africa we find little that is new, but the desire of sepaiation on the part of the eastern province is evidently on the increase. Ah to the numerous malcontents known as the pmigrant farmers, they seem determined to place themselves under the protection of the Portuguese flag, by locating within the boundaries conventionally known as appertaining to the African dependencies of the Portuguese crown. The Cape papers supply some interesting particulars in connection with the colony of Natal. Owing to adi ought which diminished the volume of water entering the Bay of Natal, five vessels were obliged to ride at anchor outside the port. It was proposed to remedy this inconvenience by the construction of a breakwater, which, by narrowing the entrance of the Bay, would turn a large quantity of water into the ship channel. It was also proposed to '.urn the rivers Umgeni .and Ulasi into the Bay with the same object. The usual inconvenience attendant on the influx of a large body of settlers in a colony uot much developed was felt. This is apparent in the financial affairs of the colony, which show a heavy balance of imports to be made up by commissariat bills and the surplus cash of the colonists. The total value of exports for 1849 was £11,265, and of imports £55,921 14s. lid. At present the farmers, find it more profitable to cultivate vegetables than to devote themselves to the production of cotton, wool, and other exportable products. The attractions of the newly discovered lake in the interior were inducing many of the cmi-

grants beyond the Vaaf River to think of another emigration in that direction. The old colonists seem divided in their sentiments as to the expediency of establishing one central government at the Cape, or several local governments, with a common general assembly. It is alleged, apparently with good reason, that the Cape is too remote from the frontier to enable a government located there promptly to repress Kafir or other aboiiginal invasion.

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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VI, Issue 524, 10 August 1850, Page 3

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CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. [From the S. A. Register, June 15.] New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VI, Issue 524, 10 August 1850, Page 3

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. [From the S. A. Register, June 15.] New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VI, Issue 524, 10 August 1850, Page 3

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