AFRICA.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 429, 18 December 1889, Page 5

AFRICA.

A oabt,k des-palch bo-day announces that a difficulty lias arisen with lespeeb to the relativo rights of the English and Portuguese in Africa. Admiral Pinto is benb upon extending the Portuguese authority over the whole of the Zambesi territory as far as Nyanzi, and is urging British re&ideuts to accept the protection of Portugal. Englishmen, howler, arc nob accustomed, to subdue barbarous countries for tho benefit of foreign Powers, and Ih ere fOl ewe fully anticipate that the suggestion thrown out by the "'Pall JNlall Ga/cttc "' will bo acted upon an'l Poi tugal rcceivo a pretty plain hint frciu the British Government that her rsprctentative in Atnoa must respect existing argun.onU and treaties. The fuller news brought by the last mail from England, shows what rapid strides Biitain us making all over the "Dark Continent,"' aud tho wonderful success attcudirig all her efforts in tho way of .successfully eoloni&ing that couiitry. Tho Hultan oE Zanzibar has signed a L-csii '• conci scion "' to tho British East AFiicau Company, whereby ho has made over to the management of tint body the island ol Liniu and the coast line fiom Kipini noithwards, including several pl.icos of some importance Thcoo lands wcic uiucli coveted by tho Germans, who in fact attempted to boizo them, bub their claim was proved to be inadmissible, as their sphcio is stiictly limited by treaty to a boundaiy line drawn from Wanga on tho coa«t to tho centic ot the eastern &hoies of Lake Victoria Nyanza. The German Company protest most strongly against these grants on the grounds ihub they have made tieatiej \\ ith some of tho chiefa ot the distiict, and that this concession is opposed lo their interests. The claim, however, ap[>ears to have been submitted to arbitration, when it was given against tho Germans. Some sections of the German press are fuiious over the proceeding, notably the "Cologne Gazette," which says : '• We were at the burning point ot our colonial policy, and the crisis &eemed to be curning in oar fn\our, when t-uddonly comes nows which is universally intei preted as the announcement of German letreab and of the immediate occupation by England of the abandoned nosibion."' Another Geiman paper, the " Vossischo Zeituug," takes quite another and fairer view of tlie que&bion. It &ays : l< As it is well known, thcie never was any Gorman capital subscribed for establishing trading lelations with the Somali poibs. Unintelligible i& therefore the indignation with w hich papers like the 'Cologne Gazebte' leter to tho treaties which Dr. Juhlke concluded with tho Somalis for the cession of their land, to Germany, and which- has now been put out of comb by the English. These treaties, it will be remembered, possessed such importance in the eye.s of tho Somalis themselves that they 1 ose in aims to oppose the coming ol Dr. Pobers among them." This same Get man, Dr. Peters, proceeded to carry matters thiough with a high hand. The result was the lepebition of the old f-toiy of Geiman attempts to deal u itli ludf-savago races, and a telegiam in the same piper states : "Dr. Peteife ifc beating a ha* by letioab to tho cOtist with his enemies in full halloo behind him. 1 ' This concession yives a great advance of territory, and also a sphere of influence giand in its dimensions, to the BiiLish Company. Whilst this tort of thing is taking place in the Northern portion of Africi, the influx of Englishmen into the Southern portion is causing considerable remaik. One English pipei averts that the increase of Biiti&h immigrants into the Tiansvaal almost f-ui'i ab.*cs that of the Mime population into California and Australia. The Glad-tone Government, after the battle of Majuba Hill, made the Transvaal o\ er abj-olutely to the Boer& ; but says tho '" Echo '". — " Thtie is a stronger force than the foice of Cabinet--, and that io tho force of nature. It is in the nature of things that the Tians>\aal &l>all become British. Neither politics nor scheming and plotting of any sort is required to eflect thi?. Tho change is going on naturally, inewta'bly, irresistibly, without the slightest i elation to our paltry party stiifes. This; is the impic-'sivo aspect of tho .situation, eccniing like Destiny making spoib of the do\ ices of men. Tho E ij;lish people aic pouting into the Transvaal at such a rate that they already gicatly outnumber the Boeis, and all this is the n-oik of two or thice short veais. Tie Tiansvaal, a country as laige a.s the United Kingdom, was owned until tho other day by the Boers numbeiinL', yountj and old, fiom fifty to hixty thousand people. Ihe foreign immigrants now number considerably over one hundred thousand, upw.nds of three-fourths of whom arc EiglHimen.'' The ciisis is c\idenlly near ab hand in the Transvaal, for while ihe Yolk^n-iad, or Parliament, isentiiely composed of Boar?,' theßiitiah lmjoritv" are scveicly taxed, refused railway, loads and other necessary conveniences for cat lying on their mining opciations, and it pfcand& to leason that when they claim their fianchi&e, to &ccuie which a rive jens' residence id neccs.-aiy, being in a. majoiify they will secure tho go\omment of tho country. Tho " Times, 1 ' remarking upon this wondciful p' ogress in Biiti'h inlluenco anrl population in South Africa, sa>?: "It is only a foretaste of Avhat is in store for a country so long neglected and undeveloped." 1b appeals bo be, howe\er, nob in tho Tiansvaal alone thab the British population has so wonderfully increased. M. Dubfit-, blie Minister of Public Instruction in tho South African Republic, when on a recent vi-=it to Eiuopo, delivered an address on this subject ab Antweip, and declared hie. groat alarm at tho turn affairs were taking; in South Afiica, and ho ur»ed the Dutch to send oub colonists to the Tians\aal and other South African Boer States to counteract the alarming increase of the Biitish. He said that he was " poiely afraid that within a very shoit space of time, nob mcicly the Tiansvaal, but the Change Fieo State as well, will be more Englhh than Dutch." Ab Pretoria he declared they are much afraid of this thing. Now that immigration has sefc in with a heavy Hood in South Africa, M. Dutoit will find ie as easy to keep out tho inflow of the tide of the sea as this tide of human beinge. lie and others will have to quietly accept tho inevitable — Africa will be ours. One thing is very clear, and that is that very shortly a 13iiti?h Government will spring up in the vciy heart of South 1 Africa. Whether incorporated with the Biitish Empire, or outside of it, remains to • bo seen ; but it the latter, it will have a very disturbing elTect upon the future of the South Afiicau Federation of the British 1 I Dominion.

An old saw — E?au. The swan lives 100 years. Japan builds n hon«e ftom the, roof down.. A Fi enclitnan makes f>ilU without wouns. " Tlio land speaks for ittrolf — eh, Jones V" "■ I Unow ; but I'm nol certain ycb jusb how the land lies ' A shaip tonguo is the only edged tool that glows keener \uth constant use.