We note with interest that Lord Graham, the eldest son
of the Duke of Montrose, who was in South Africa during the war with the Naval Brigade and on transport duty, and who returned there at the end of last year on a mission connected with the Mercantile Marine, is now going back to South Africa in order to stand for a Cape constituency. We wish Lord Graham all success in his new career. His devotion to a sea life induced him to serve before the mast. This, however, was no whim, for the knowledge of the Mercantile Marine and of the needs of our seamen which be thus gained be has used with the greatest zeal and persistence to further the interest of our merchant sailors. On the platform and with his pen he has repeatedly pleaded their cause. His presence in the House of Commons would have been of great use, but we shall not grudge bins to the Cape Parliament, especially if he keeps pegging away at the problem of land colonisation by men and women of British birth, upon which subject he contributed an interesting letter to our columns last spring.
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