SOUTH AFRICA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 60, 31 July 1914, Page 7

SOUTH AFRICA.

MR. K. 11. NOLAN'S IMPRESSIONS. During his visit to South Africa. Mr R. 11. Nolan, of llawera (says the Ha-w-era Star), went through some of the mines at Johannesburg, and says it was one of the most interesting* days in Africa. He obtained for us a sketch of the l)e Beers Company and its achievements, which we hope to publish shortly. -Mr Nolan adds: Visiting the battlefields was a great education, and it is easy for even a layman to see the fearful blunders that were made by the British. Wc also visited the place where Jameson started his raid and the terminal point where they were finally captured. It was a mad scheme. Victoria Falls are wonderful, yet in a sengo np s£ uncanny as Niagara owing to about" the same volume of water having double the width to How. The falls are also about double the height. We motored up the Zambesi for a few miles above Livingston, passing the course where Arnst bent Marry. Africa is a huge continent,"though till you travel one does not realise it. The train journeys are very long. We travelled some 4000- miles, and the conclusion that I came to was that with good Government and a largely increased European popul,..' .-, there is, a grand future before it. 1 called on the Prime Minister at the Cape (Mr L. Botha) and he was greatly interested to meet one from New Zealand and discussed our politics which he had a good grasp of. Mr Smuts is a most powerful man. F'. ! tfllliCCl C v( '!' . t,le Johannesburg strike and deportations, but after having been there and getting the history from the residents and those who know, I feci that they did the right thing, and if they had not acted at once the opinion is that Johannesburg would have been decimated. There are 250,000 native working in the mines, and it was ti>» fear of them taking a hand i» '. t t i,,,'i caused prompt action. miMrs M control of enough - -± t m~, ~ * . ° dynamite to blow '"i the \vuiol* . „■> , n ~ . A , i -l- •,,.- j. .. of South. Africa. Our triri n' inA t country from every point ' C' view was most enjoyable.