7 MARCH 1891, Page 3

The Times states, we regret to see, that it has

been finally decided not to separate the High Commissionership in South Africa from the Governorship of the Cape. Both offices are worthily held by Sir H. Loch ; but the effect of this decision must be to delay for years the union of all the South African Colonies and States, and the exemption of the native question from legislative action in separate Colonies. The latter reform is urgently required in the interests of humanity, while the former change would prevent the constant collisions between English and Dutch interests in South Africa. The High Commissioner or Viceroy should, moreover, be released front the kind of control which the Ministry a Cape Colony can hardly fail to exercise over him.