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On the 5,978-mile stretch from Southam] ton to © ipe town a transport occupies on an average twenty-one days, including stoppages. Up to date the best record is held by the Dunottar

Castle, which ploughed her way from port to port in fifteen days thirteen hours—an average for the entire pas- sage of a shade under 385 knots per day. The the same route as the to South /

transports follow substantially mail steamers frica. The only difference is

that instead of swinging out to touch |

at the lonely Islands of Ascension and St. Helena, in the South Atlantic, they make a bee line for the Cape once they get their nose past Cape Verde and Sierra Leone. ‘They run through the Bay of Biscay, skirt the north- western corner of Spain, and get their last look of Europe. Then they strike off towardsthe Medira Isles, which are 1,300 miles from Southampton.

It is only a day’s run to the Canary Islands, and here they coal, if neces- sary. The Canaries, with their two chief towns, Teneriffe and Las Palmas, are just off that part of the northwest African coast where the Great Sahara Desert joins Morocco. Las Palmas, the principal town in the Canaries, is built after the flat-roof Oriental style, but there are some good English hotels, also a cathedral and a museum. It is but a six hours’ passage from Las Palmas to Teneriffe.

The route lies almost due south fiom the Canaries to the Island of St Vin- cent, whence the boats are reported to London. But nothing more is heard of them until they steam into Cape Town twelve or fourteen days _ later. During this time they are stéering south-south-east through the Atlantic, ‘making for the capitai of Cape Colony as fast as the weather and their coal supply will admit.

Those transports which do not empty themselves at Capetown proceed to Durban, taking first a southerly, then an easterly, and finally a nor’-easterly course. Between Southampton and Durban, as the transports make the journey, is a matter of 6,790 miles.

The Empire’s War.

The letter from a German staff of- ficer, published in the London Times, of which a summary was cabled some days ago, is one of unusual interest and importance. It is easy to believe the statement that the officer is one of high rank and wide experience, for the letter displays unusual knowledge and intelligence. The writer points out that success in this war, at whatever cost, is necessary to the future success of the British Empire. An England impotent toreducejand toldSouth Africa would be destined, in his opinion, not only to be- come the scorn and victim of all other nations, but to lose all her colonies and fallto the rank of a third—class state, An untoward end to the present hostilities would, in the view of every- thinking European, mean thé dis- memberment of the Empire. There is no risk of an untoward result except from the cause which has been the source of nearly all England’s military mishaps during the

there is a real danger of the British War Office;repeating the mistake in the present instance. The small number of troops employed in previous operations against the Boers has mis- led English experts as to their ac- tual strength. ‘The German staff of- ficer is ina position to take an un- biassed view of the situation, and his summing up of it is worth attention. He points out that the Boers are ac-— climatized, they know every yard of the country and all its capacities for traps for the bravest, most competent European treops. ‘They shoot admir- ably, they are manoeuvered with as— tonishing strategical ability, already revealed in the trifling operations hith- erto Carried out ; they can ignore ques- tions of food and encampment to a degree out of the question with British-

present | century, her persistent underestimation | of her opponents’ resources. ‘The scale | on which the preparations were made | for the Transvaal campaign proves that |

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Africa.

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been heightened by success ofa ce tain nature up to the present. ‘They have found time during their advance

south to put their rear route in an able

tategof defence ; they have spies in numerable at their service In every quarter of the operations, and mor® over, are assisted by the code tele- grams which foreign representatives and powers are still allowed to ex- change, and which these “friendly”

powers are persistently abusing ; they are in possession ot vast accumulations of food, weapons and ammunition an extent which will enable them to prolong the ,war for an_ indefinite period. Finally Pretoria has been ‘fortified in such an able manner that ,an aln.o t insignificant defensive force will be able to hold the place, whilst the main army can be devoted to other | duty.

| ‘Taking all these circumstances into | account, the writer comes to the con- clusion that if England means to come | out victorious she will have to be re- presented in South Africa by an im- mensely increased numerical force at |} any rate one quite beyond the propor- | tions of anything as yet conceived by | the public. He urges, therefor2, that ithe British force in South Africa | should be doubled or trebled by the }employment of trained volunteer sol- diers, who would be quite efficient for garrisoning the' chief places in Cape Colony and Natal, for keeping touch between columns and bases, and for overcoming any treachery of the na- | tives, white or black. Such men are ‘to be had in England and in the colo- nies in thousands, and an appeal from the Queen to her people in all cli- mates would convert thousands into hundreds of thousands, from which only the best materiai might be chosen.

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What Ladysmith is Like.

Ladysmith, which is the chief town of the Klip river division of the Klip river countyy in Natal, is 189 miles from Durban by rail and is situated on abroad tongue of land formed by the Klip river. On the right of the rail- way, looking north, is a high rocky ridge, crowned with the thorn bush or fiat topped’ mimosa, which bears frag- ‘rant yellow flowers. Ladysmith is ‘surrounded by a sheltering semi-circle | of hills, writes a correspondent of the | Pall Mall Gazette. Approaching Lady- {smith from the south, the main road runs through a flat and bare country, with kopjes and broken ground away to the right in the direction of Modder- spruit. Then the Klip River is crossed before entering the town. <A small supernumerary camp lies on the south side of the river, but General White’s main position is out of the town al- together, on the top of the hills which overlook Ladysmith. The most con- spicuous public bullding is the town hall, erected at a cost of £6,000. It is a handsome building in the Doric style, built of blue whinstone and white fréestone, the common rocks of the dis- (trict, with a tower and clock. The country gaol, the colonial engineers’ department offices, and the postal form part

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charge, and the resv't isan itching which is only rendered more excruciating by rubbing or scratching.

Especially at night, when the body is warm, the patient is tormented beyond the powers ef ; Buman endurance. Sicep or rest is out of the

question. Nervouswess, irritability and des-

pondency are a natural result. In these offices there are on the file thou- * sands of letters from grateful women who have found in Dr. Chase's Ointment a quick and certain cure for this itching to which women are subject.

During the expectant period many women suffer similar agony from itching of the parts, or itching piles, which are absolutely cured by Dr. Chase's Ointment,

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| large repairing and other work-ahop connected with the station. Ladysmith | has at least thirteen well Jaid out streets, | one of which, near the railway station, | is mainly composed of what are known | as Arab stores, dirty premises occ upied , by Banyan traders, who prey upon the | |

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| fancy. .Ladysmith is 119 miles from the next English base, Pietermaritz burg, and 189 miles from Durban.

Kruger’s Wealth. |

} | ' | | hoes, and trinkets so dear to the savage | i |

At the beginning of the present year Kruger’s wealth was estimated at 4 25,- 000,000 and his ungovernable greed of gold is no doubt the true reason why he, personally and governmentally, squeezed the Uitlanders so mercilessly, even When he must have seen it was leading to the destruction of the re- public. While he and his co-delegates were in England negotiating the con- vention of 1884, a quarrel arose among those to whom he had entrusted the affairs of state in the Transvaal and it developed to such a degree that his supplies were stopped.. While con- vention matters were still unsettled the delegation’s funds ran so low that they were unable to pay their hotel bill, At this crisis a far-seeing Englishman, who had been to the Transvaal and taken note of the concessions which a_pater- nal government was granting here and there, came with a rich friend and held out the benefits that would accrue to the country and themselves if a con- cession were given for a wool washery and a woolen factory. If such a mono- poly were granted they would pay the hotel bill, and it was hinted that Mr. Kruger himself would lose nothing by the transaction. The bargain was made, the hotel bill was settled and a cheque for £1,000 was given to Kruger himself. The machinery was ordered, but while it lay at the docks ready for shipment a ' friend who had a little more experience | of Transvaal methceds, urged the con- | cessionaries not to ship the machinery till the arrangement was confirmed by | the Volksraad It was well they heed- | ed this advice for the Volksraad refu- | sed to ratify the concession. When | asked artterwards to refund the money, the foxy Kruger said he had received the little attention as Stephanus Johan- | nes Pau'us Kruger and not in his capa- | city as President of the Transvaal. Per- | sonally he could do nothing, and to | this day the money has not been re- | funded. Now, this cencession was to have included a tract of land 75 square miles, and it was the intention of the concessionaries to locate the works on a stream of very clear,and soft water, known as the Witwater, and this tract would have included the richest part ot | what became celebrated two years later | as the Witwatersrand gold fields on which Johannesburg now _ stands. When the terrible dynamite explosion occured at Krugersdorp in 1897 a} fund was raised at Johannesberg for the sufferers. A number of poor Boers were killed but not a single English- man, yet the entire amount of the re- lief fund was raised by Uitlanders. Oom Paul had his name put down for

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though repeatedly called upou for it.— Canadian Magazine.

Ascouple of New South Wales shear- ers, who threwup their work for the purpose of proceeding to the war, were escorted to the station by a large body of mounted shearers, singing “Rule | Britannia.”

Minard’s Liniment for sale everywhere,

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DR. A. W, GHASE’S O45 GATARRH CURC ,., & 52%

is sent direc, to ths acveased parts by the Improved blower. Heals the ulcers, ci ars the sir Passages, stops dropyings in the _ throat and permanantiy cures oa a aad Haj Sever. Blower 2 dealers, or Dr. A. W. Chase

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I. 8S. Jounson, Esq.—Fifty years ago this month, your father. Dr. Johneon. le Johnson’s Anodyne iaiment, 3 agher. De. Johnson, lotet 2a: an maintained its i

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