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CAPE COLONY. 



Four pairs of corduroy stockings. 



Two flannel shirts. 



One pair of swimming-trunks. 



One worsted belt. 



One cap, or light felt hat. 



One pair of heavy all-wool camp-blankets, gray. 



Three pairs of rubber-soled gymnasium shoes. " 



One pair of stout leather boots. 



One pair of rubber boots. 



One rubber coat. 



No fire-arms will be allowed. 



Each boy will be allowed twenty-five cents a week 

 for personal expenses while in camp ; it is requested 

 that no other money be furnished to any boy for use 

 during the summer. Necessary additional expenses 

 will be paid by the camp, and an account will be sent 

 to parents. 



There will be two terms, the first beginning near 

 the end of June and ending about the beginning of 

 August, and the second beginning early in August 

 and ending early in September. 



The fees for the two terms will be $150 ; for one 

 term, $85. 



CANADA, DOMINION OF. See DOMINION OF 

 CANADA. 



CAPE COLONY, a British colony in South 

 Africa, the form of government of which was 

 established on March 11, 1853. British Caf- 

 t'raria was incorporated in the colony in 1865, 

 and responsible government was established 

 in 1872. The executive authority is vested in 

 the Governor, assisted by an Executive Council 

 appointed by the Crown. The legislative power 

 rests with a Legislative Council of 22 members, 

 elected for seven years, presided over ex-officio 

 by the Chief- Justice, and a House of Assembly 

 of 74 members, elected for five years. On 

 Sept. 1, 1887 an act took effect giving the 

 Transkeian territories representation in the 

 Legislative Council, and two members in the 

 House of Assembly. The Governor of the Cape 

 of Good Hope is Sir Hercules George Robert 

 Robinson, appointed in 1880. He is alsocom- 

 mander-in-chief of the forces within the colo- 

 ny, and High Commissioner for South Africa. 

 The Governor is assisted in his administration 

 by a ministry of five members. 



Area and Population. The area of Cape Colony 

 is 213, 636 square miles, including 14,230 square 

 miles in the Transkeian territory. The esti- 

 mated population of the colony and its de- 

 pendencies in 1885 was 1,252,347. The total 

 white population is estimated at 300,000. The 

 capital of the colony, Cape Town, had a popu- 

 lation of 60,000 in 1886. Kimberley had a 

 population of 25,000, and Port Elizabeth, 

 a population of 18,000 in tb.3 same year. 

 During 1886, 4,731 marriages were regis- 

 tered in the colony. Assisted immigration 

 was stopped in 1886. The number of emi- 

 grants sent out by the emigration agent in 

 London between 1873 and 1885 was 23,337, 

 the greatest number in any single year being 

 4,645 in 1882. Basutoland, with an area of 

 168,000 square miles and 168,000 inhabitants, 

 of whom only 400 are whites, a rich grain- 

 producing district, is administered by a resident 

 commissioner under the High Commissioner for 

 South Africa. Bechuanaland, 180,000 square 

 miles in extent, with a Caffre population of 



478,000, and Pondoland, with 200,000 inhabit- 

 ants, are British protectorates. The Pondos 

 have as yet refused to receive a resident com- 

 missioner. 



Finances. The revenue for the year 1888 is 

 estimated at 3,451,000, and the expenditure 

 at 3,110,000. Of the total revenue of the 

 colony, one third is derived from customs, and 

 one third from railways. One third of the ex- 

 penditure is for the public debt, and one fifth 

 for railways. On Jan. 1, 1887, the colony had 

 a public debt of 21,171,854, besides 1,289,- 

 439 raised for guaranteed companies. Colonial 

 paper money has been issued to the amount of 

 2,360,000." 



Commerce. The total value of imports for 



1886 was 3,799,261, and of exports, including 

 specie and diamonds, 7,306,538. For the year 



1887 the exports were 7,535,037. The value 

 of the wool exported in 1886, was 1,580,432 ; 

 ostrich-feathers, 546,230 ; hides and skins, 

 397,091 ; copper-ore, 559,328; Angora hair, 

 232,134; wine, 23,426 ; diamonds, 3,504,- 

 756. In 1887 the export of diamonds was 

 3,598,930 carats, valued at 4,240,000. 



The number of vessels entered and cleared 

 at the ports of the colony in 1886 was 3,555, 

 having a tonnage of 5,549,217. 



The number of miles of state railroads in 

 the colony at the end of 1886 was 1,599 ; the 

 gross earnings were 1,048,686, and expenses, 

 646,715. The capital expended on railways 

 to the end of 1886 has been 14,130,616. The 

 net earnings, which averaged 2f per cent, for 

 the two years preceding, were 4^ per cent, in 

 1887. 



The revenue from the postal service amounted 

 in 1886 to 125,634, and the expenditure to 

 183,057. The number of letters carried dur- 

 ing the year was 6,529,874, and of newspapers, 

 3,151,835. 



The total length of the telegraph lines in the 

 colony at the end of 1886 was 4,329 miles. 

 During the year, 770,500 messages were sent. 



Naval Defenses. The colonial and imperial 

 Governments are jointly fortifying the harbor 

 of Table Bay, the Cape Government providing 

 the labor. Works at Simon's Bay have been 

 built by the British Government. 



Natal. The colony of Natal was separated 

 from the Cape of Good Hope in 1856. The 

 Governor is assisted by an Executive Council, 

 composed of the chief functionaries, and a 

 Legislative Council made up to seven appointed 

 and twenty-three elected members. The present 

 Governor is Sir Arthur Elibank Havelock, who 

 was appointed to the post in October, 1885. 

 The revenue in 1886 was 600,177, and the ex- 

 penditure 717,414. In 1887 the revenue rose 

 to 816.680, while the expenditure was 689,- 

 325. The public debt at the end of 1887 was 

 4,035,126. 



The area of the colony is 21,150 square miles, 

 and the population, as returned in 1886, is 

 442,697. Between 1878 and 1884, when as- 

 sisted immigration ceased, 4,526 immigrants 





