German Acquisitions at St. Lucia.

Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 97, 11 April 1885, Page 5

German Acquisitions at St. Lucia.

The German traveller, Derr Einwald, has suddenly become one of the largest landowners in the world. While on his travels in Zululand, King Dunizulu, the Bon of Cetewayo, took a great liking to Einwald for the interest ho manifested for his people, and formally ceded him 100 000 acres on both sides of the bay of St. Lucia, the king receiving therefor a musical box and the promise of German intervention in behalf of the Zulus. Einwald is not a land-jobber, nor does he intend to make any profit out of this extraordinary royal gift, and his first step was to make the tract over to Herr Luderitz, of Angra Pequena, by whom it ia being pressed upon the German Government. Herr Einwald is now in London ondeavouring to learn from Lord Derby what England intends to do in the unfortunate country which has been abandoned to anarchy. Einwald is very emphatic in his denunciation of England for its cowardly policy, or rather, inactivity, in tho Transvaal. The Boers, who have flocked into Zululand, he pronounces the ■cum of the earth. They came into the country and secured from Dunizulu, with the advice and consent of William Grant, his English adviser, a concession of 2,750,000 acres of land, besides the right of sovereignty. "These scoundrels," says Einwald, " are loafing about the country, stealing honest people's goods, living in the mission houses, and threatening to shoot everybody who does not do exactly as they please. Poor Dunizulu had no idea what he was about when he ceded his country to these adventurers, and when I read over tho proclamation which he ,had signed he was aghast, and protested that he had no idea that he had signed his country away. He had acted on the advice of Grant, who has now turned against him and is helping another Zulu chief t,o attack Dunizulu and his Boer." Einwald also says that the Boers were very indignant and threatened to shoot him several times, but Einwald always wont well armed, and they let him alone. Meanwhile the Zulus are being badly used on all sides, and German interference will not come any too soon. As for England, no hope is entertained of aid from that country, although from it emanates all the trouble.