Review of reviews and world's work . d and a follower of Mr. Hof-mej^er; but I am also a Cape Colonist, and my ideaof the future of the Cape Colony is that the develop-ment of the Cape right up to the Zambesi nnist bein its hands, not because the Cape Colo)iy is Enylinhand the Transvaal Dutch, hut because the Dutch andEnglish of the Trausrrial are the rirals and co)»j>efi-tors of the Dutch and Emjlisli of the Cape Colony. ;u THE REI/IEIV OF REI^IEIVS. As a native of the Cape Colony I wish to keep thedevelopment of the back country in our handslathei- than give it over to any one else. It is
Review of reviews and world's work . d and a follower of Mr. Hof-mej^er; but I am also a Cape Colonist, and my ideaof the future of the Cape Colony is that the develop-ment of the Cape right up to the Zambesi nnist bein its hands, not because the Cape Colo)iy is Enylinhand the Transvaal Dutch, hut because the Dutch andEnglish of the Trausrrial are the rirals and co)»j>efi-tors of the Dutch and Emjlisli of the Cape Colony. ;u THE REI/IEIV OF REI^IEIVS. As a native of the Cape Colony I wish to keep thedevelopment of the back country in our handslathei- than give it over to any one else. It is a mis-take to think that the Cape is English and theTransvaal Dutch : they are both English-Dutch andDutch-English. The antagonism which at onetimeseemed to be fermented bj the mischievous policyof some British statesmen has disappeared underthe wise and humanizing influence of Mr. CecilRhodes. So great is the influence which he hasobtained that in the last months of the last j^earhis Government, through Mr. Siveright, concluded r. MR. J. H. HOFMEYER, Leader of the Dutch in the Cape Parliament. the railway convention satisfactorily with the Trans-vaal, notwithstanding the irritation produced bythe letters of Lord Randolph Churchill. policy is to make Cape Town the centreand capital of the whole of South Africa. Withthat in view, he has just given a site valued at£16. OnO to found a imiversity which he hopes willattract the youth from all the states of South Africa,and which will become the Oxford and Cambridgeof the Southern Continent. THE DUTCH AND MASHONALAXD. It is a mistake to think that the Dutch at theCape regard with antipathy the development of3Iashonaland, especially when the country is openedup by the direct central railway running the Dutch agriculturist and fruit-grower ofthe Cape think is that the opening up of the greatterritories to the north will make a market for their goods. They will send fruit and cattle and manu-factures of all k
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