We regret to record the death on Monday of Sir
Leander Starr Jameson, at the age of sixty-four. Before he achieved world-wide notoriety as the leader of the Jameson Raid into the Trauevaal in December, 1898, he had done a great work in assisting his friend Cecil Rhodes to colonize Rhodeeia. After he had purged his offence as a filibuster by imprisonment in England, be returned to South Africa to become Prime Minister of Cape Colony and, as leader of the British colonists, to lend invaluable support to General Botha'is policy of reconciliation between the British and the Dutch. The IRIOCeS5 of the Bloemfontein Conference of 1910, out of which emerged the Union of South Africa, was largely due to him. It may be mentioned that it was he who induced the Government to restore to the Orange Free State its old name, which had been unwisely changed during the war to that of " Orange River Colony," greatly to the annoyance of the inhabitants. According to the Times, in the days of his Premiership he wee once told by a sup- porter that a certain line of action would be the greatest mistake in his life. " No," he replied, "it may be a mistake, but it won't be my greatest mistake. I've made that already." But he bad handsomely redeemed his blunder long before he died. Ho is to be buried beside his friend Rhodes on the Matopos, at the spot called "The World's View."
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