A COLONIAL MONUMENT.
[To THE EDITOR OP TES esesoriava.1 Sra,—I think the idea of my friend and parishioner, Mr. Myers, in the Spectator of March 17th, as to "a Colonial monument" is excellent. But where is it to be and what ? I venture to suggest this. I believe that the Metropolitan of Cape Town is very anxious on the subject of the proper completion of the Cathedral at Cape Town. Might not that be a very suitable object in the hearts and minds of many who have suffered grievous losses in friends and relations in this war, and of many others who have not, —the completion of the Cathedral in the chief town of South Africa? That would be a suitable thanksgiving from many in this country, and in a land the name of which is so close to the hearts of thousands. If the Metropolitan can think of such an object in the midst of his present anxieties, I cannot but feel that he would deeply sympathise and be thankful for this sugges- tion. Of course the names of the many who, alas I have offered their lives to the death in this war, might and should be duly recorded in some very visible inscription such as now appears in St. Paul's with regard to " The Captain."...
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