Johannesburg Jubilee Johannesburg reaches its jubilee this year at a
period when the high price of gold has carried it to a maximum prosperity ; and the great exhibition opened there on Tuesday by Lord Clarendon, the Governor-General of the Union, represents the most ambitioui effort ever made by South Africa in this line. Great Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand all have separate pavilions, and many other parts of the Empire are specially repre- sented. Attempts have also been made to attract visitors in substantial numbers from overseas. Founded in the same year as Vancouver (also celebrating its jubilee) Johannesburg has, taking whites and blacks together, a somewhat larger population ; but each represents an astonishing example of growth which, though rapid, has long ceased to be mushroom. Though not a capital. for any purpose, Johannesburg- is the one town in South Africa which wears for the European visitor a really metropolitan air. Not everybody would care to live and die there ; but everybody feels it is indisputably a great city. Its exhibition is a symbol of the prosperity which all South Africa is enjoying and looks like continuing to enjoy.
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