THE CAPE COI.QNY AND Tra TRANSVAAL. ire THE Eouort OF
THE " SPEcTATOR.") Sfa,—Your correspondent Mr. A. J. Bailey, in the Speckttor of May 6th, is hardly correct in saying that some five years ago the farmers of the Cape Colony were threatened with ruin by the closing of the Vaal River drifts to their produce. As a matter of fact, the drifts were closed only to " oversea " goods, and Colonial produce was expressly excepted from the action of the proclamation. As regards the possibility of war being evolved out of the present situation, those who can with a light heart contemplate the possibility of a war, one of the certain results of which would be the ruin of two British Colonies at a cost of fifty millions to the British taxpayer, must either be fiends or madmen.—I am, Sir, &c., F. REGINALD STATHAM.
National Liberal Club, May 10th.
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