South Africa.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 293, 9 December 1902, Page 4

South Africa.

London, December 5

Mr Chamberlain and party have arrived at Cairo, and are staying with Lord Cromer on the Nile. Mr Chamberlain will hear the details of irrigation and its working, which I may be useful to him in South Africa. The party will embark at Suez on Suuday. Mr and Mrs Chamberlain are both in good health.

Application has been made to the Dean for permission to erect in St Paul's a memorial to the 6000 colonial troops who were killed in the Boer war.

The Board of Trade has appointed Mr Henry Birctranough, a member of the Council of the Statistical Society, to visit South Africa, and report on the openings for trade here. It is the intention of the Board to improve the system of obtaining information from the self-governing colonies to enable the British to successfully compete with foreigners. Lord Onslow, speaking at the South Africa Association banquet to Lord Windsor, said that the Government were determined that all the world should know that whenever there was trouble in any part of the Empire it was better to be with England than against her. Capetown, December 6.

The Afrikander Bond's new [name, the South African Party, is a mere signboard to conceal the fact that the real aims of the organisation are unaltered, and the Bond retained as a subdivision for the purposes of Cape politics. The more general organisation known as the . South African Party is already seeking to foiater the growth of an anti-Imperial party among the Uitlanders in Johannesburg. The party has met with little success so far.