11 MAY 1889, Page 3

Sir Hercules Robinson, Chief Commissioner in South Africa, and Governor

of the Cape, has, it is said, consented to retain both offices for three years longer. He is greatly trusted by the Colonial Office, but he is said to insist strongly on two points of policy. One is, that the Governor of the Cape should always be High Commissioner, which seems to give a single Colony too much influence ; and the other is, that the Imperial Government should not undertake the direct government of any district. New land, when annexed, should either be placed under the authority of an old Colony, or organised to form a new one. Only Colonists, he thinks, have the experience to govern, the Home Government being constantly deluded by the interference of well-meaning but incompetent advisers.