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Lord Kitchener was entertained at a public banquet in Johannesburg

on Wednesday week. " Men of his temper," said Lord Milner, in proposing his health, " are commonly supposed to be less sensitive to the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune than others, but no man has felt more than Lord Kitchener the loss of the many gallant officers and men. But all the more honour is due to hilia that he never let the acuteness of his sorrows and disappointments deflect the steady, unswerving pursuit of his aim." In the course of his reply Lord Kitchener said of the Boers, "What- ever our previous opinion, we have come to realise thalt they are a virile race, and an asset of considerable import nee to the British Empire."