RHODES--"COLOSSUS."

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 69, 13 August 1915, Page 4 (Supplement)

RHODES--"COLOSSUS."

Cecil Rhodes, the last of the great Fndishmen who will add vast tracts ot 2 ySSnmn"" tfcf" |"th AfS» Colossus," ho came to be stjled ( ssrvasp s rtin\i»JUth,a»4ve tsibilities of greatly ' o nnssosflions in tliftt continent. . srs. *>» • fed rf.i73 controlled by Britain, an 1 rnnto" reaching from the taw w Cairo, and before his death Je had the satisfaction of seeing much ■ of his idea already become the ruling spirit in the "Son of British territory andl m securing (1889) the charter for the Bntish South Africa. Company. Perhaps Rhodes was somewhat imp.a at any rate, the Jameson Raid was his greatest blunder, though exaetThSw far he was direct y for it is not easy to find out. toi ne would not pload for himself, taking the responsibility of it; but there is little doubt that be must at least have known all about it from the first. His greatest achievement, peiliap', was the day when alone he the Matoppos to negotiate with the name i-hiets! refusing to .lire share the extreme peril w.'th nim. the natives knew him for their faithful Send and repaid his love for them and after he had patiently listened toJ.heii sssTto-s « IhTSopt tloir' S. Nor M Uw[ fittLr friend, and at wgg in the same Mattonos the chieftains present all exclaimeJ, " We have lost ""llie " Coiloseu*" left a will as remarkable as the man himself. 'J. besides making munificent benefactions to So Colony, he provided endowments for rich at Oxford for Colonials and Americans.