IN THE PUBLIC EYE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8161, 19 June 1906, Page 3

IN THE PUBLIC EYE.

{SIR HENRY McCJALLUM. - According to the.Governor of Ha*,taV there is a wide Bpread conspiracy in native Africa against the rule cf the white man. lie doesn't single bat theJtJritiaher, ■ bat takes in- the white man. generally., and lays emphasis on the alleged "encouragement" which the'white-man has had through the failure of the , Germans to suppress arebellion in one oftheir, possessions. Associated with, this'news' is, 'perhaps, the report.of a rising jri Nigeria, which, however, the English have checked, and. of coursed there is the rather' formidable affair in Natal doe to the natives resenting the collection of a new tax. The black man in Africa Is immensely numerous and eminently virile, but so far as territory is concerned he is now governed pretty well everywhere. The only nlaces where he fe at all independent is in Abyssinia and' - Liberia and even-there the influence of England ia 'evident in one place and the protection of another white nation in the 1 other. 'Africa is ■ the moat extraordinary proportioned of the 6b!oUred continents, as nearly -all the white frurla is interested in some way id its destiny. Fiaught with ft 'thousand dangers through this the oatloofe"is one of the most* peculiar Qatore possible, rival interests torching everywhere with a developtbifear of , collision on a' dozen sides,at once. Territorially, speaking the greatest stake bolder is France, who, .with Madagascar and Morocco, qontrols or influences 4,023,974 tqaare miles.- . Great Britain comes ngst »with j3,7:23,910 square milf*s, , Jb|s .including "Egypt arid"the ,Sou i of course,' par^of the Ooati-,! with square miles,; •nd (fourth [in .ordej? is the Congo Portugal owns 790,124 square fiaileß' Turkey '398,900 square miles, Italy ! <188,500 i and JSpajnj 469,150 equare ni]leo. Theonly parts] *4)f» Africa government all j left the* 'Mackinac atn'oant t0'37,200 square' miles and all, but 52. UOQ square wiles tire cumprised in Abyssinia <, While through "all. this established 1 subdivision the fate of.coloured rule is wattled out of nil '.'redress,'' the extraordinary, nature of the boundaries scan only mean u bone of contention ,f<jrEurope which the first great war,,must ..serve to 1 turn jfotora catase of angry dispute. With tthis outlook Great, Britain .is in the übdstiposition in all wayß, for their posHeßsioriß flre fairly, concrete and jCOrappandt the best van tat; e points. If only (iermaby could be bought of .Eaßt' Africa, 'Portugal bought s'pajt, Itajy bought out, (not imposJ prptedtoratethe British flag kthe'Mediterranean' to the Gajpe and , to.the sea.from ehd to end,