On Monday, Dr. Jameson, the Administrator of the Soutb Africa
Company, was entertained at dinner at the Imperial Institute, and afterwards delivered a lecture, the Prince of Wales being in the chair. After repeating his belief in the " payable " nature of the Rhodesia minerals, and describing
the capabilities of Matabeleland for cattle-rearing—" what- ever else we have, we have an admirable pastoral country "- Dr. Jameson dealt with the future of South Africa. The future he looks forward to is commercial federation, and possibly political amalgamation. " Here will be a livable country, and with the finest climate in the world—in that portion, at all events, extending from the Cape Peninsula tc certainly within a hundred miles of the Zambesi—capable of supporting an enormous white population, with free exchange of products throughout, with a united railway policy, and above all, with a united native labour policy." Certainly that is a dazzling ideal ; and if Mr. Rhodes can do for South Africa what Sir John Macdonald did for Canada—make a great commonwealth in which the Anglo-Saxon is the pre- dominant partner, or, at any rate, which accepts the Anglo- Saxon ideal—he will have done a great piece of work.
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