The Graham's Town Journal mentions further depredations of the Kafirs.
They had attacked several herds of cattle, carrying off altogether 119 oxen, and killing one herdsman. The same paper, referring to the hostility between the European settlers and the natives, asks " every thinking person," if he does not see that the Colonists " are heedlessly rushing to a crisis, when there must be a fearful struggle for supremacy between the White man and the Black ; and that the possibility is that such a struggle will lead ultimately to the extermination of the latter ? "
Sir George Napier, the new Governor, had put forth a " memoran- dum," with details of a plan for "reorganizing the educational establish- ment of the colony, and of placing the Public Schools in charge of men professionally qualified to undertake the important office of public instructors."
The South ilfrican Commercial Advertiser calls the reports of the conflicts of the Boors with the troops at. Port Natal, which have ap- peared in English newspapers as from private correspondents in the colony, " most absurd."
Complaints of the Colonial Office appear in these papers. A corre- spondent of the Commercial Advertiser, whose communication is printed as a leading article, says-
" The time is now arrived, when the Colonists of the Cape of Good Hope can obtain, by firm, temperate, and persevering endeavours iu common with other Colonies, a wholesome amelioration of a system of government which is ill accordant with the enlightened principles of the age. * * * * From large annual sums of revenue, raised partly by means of an unconstitutional taxation, no generous part has been returned to the inhabitant of the interior districts, in useful public undertakings ; and little exists at the present day to bear evidence to that paternal regard for the happiness and prosperity of sub- jects, which, like the streams of irrigation led. through a thirsty soil, would have been a double blessing to the giver and the receiver."
The grievances of the Cape arc attributed to the " irresponsibility " of the Local Government to its subjects, and the "distance and nature of the controlling power."
Copious extracts front Lard DURHAM'S Report on the British Pro- vinces in America are given—especially from that part of it which relates to Colonial Lands and Emigration.
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