The news from South Africa has this week been meagre
in the extreme. The cause is partly that the attention of the correspondents and news agents has been relaxed, but still more that Lord Kitchener's large and comprehensive scheme of action has not yet had time to develop. It is evident that the arming and organisation of the people of the Colony has been a great success, and that the Boer raid has not brought the accession of strength to our enemies that they hoped and desired. Meanwhile, and till some really favourable development takes place, we can only hold on and wait. To the Boers and their sympathisers we must, however, address one word of caution. If they imagine that sorrow for the Queen's death will make the British people relax even in the minutest degree their force and resolution in regard to the war, they are woof ally mistaken. We have never much feared any weakening of the country on the great issue. Now we are absolutely certain that we shall go through with it, be the cost what it may, and even should it be necessary to keep our Army in South Africa for another eighteen months.
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