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Imperialism appealed to him (Hertzog) only when it was useful to South Africa. 

 He had a short time previously also pronounced in favour of the Dutch and British 

 remaining " two nationalities flowing each in a separate channel." On December 13, 

 Col. Leuchars, Minister of Public Works, resigned as a protest against General Hert- 

 zog's "Anti-Imperial and Anti-British sentiments." As Hertzog was not prepared 

 to resign, General Botha tendered his resignation on December 15, and was at once 

 asked by the Governor General to form a new ministry. This was accomplished on 

 December 20; Mr. Fischer, a minister who had usually acted with General Hertzog, 

 deciding after much hesitation to join the new ministry. The cabinet was reconstituted 

 as follows: General Botha, Premier and Minister of Agriculture, Mr. Sauer, Minister 

 of Justice and Native Affairs; General Smuts, Minister of Finance and Defence; Mr. 

 Fischer, Minister of the Interior and of Lands; Mr. Malan, Minister of Mines and 

 Education; Mr. Burton, Minister of Railways and Harbours; Sir Thomas Watt, Min- 

 ister of Posts, Telegraphs and Public Works; Sir D. de Villiers Graaff, minister without 

 portfolio. The only new member was Sir T. Watt, who, as a Natal member of the 

 House of Assembly, replaced Col. Leuchars. General Botha described the new minis- 

 try as aiming first "at building up a new country on non-racial lines." 



OBITUARY. The deaths of some prominent South Africans may here be noted: 



Sir THOMAS EKINS FULLER, formerly agent-general for Cape Colony, died at Tunbridge 

 Wells on the 5th of September 1910. Born at West Drayton, Middlesex, in 1831, he was 

 for some time a Baptist minister, leaving England to edit the Cape Argus in 1864. He was 

 subsequently general manager of the Union Steamship Company, Chairman of the Cape 

 Town Harbour Board, a director of the De Beers Mining Company and member of the 

 House of Assembly (see R. B. v, 248). In 1902 he was appointed agent-general for Cape 

 Colony in London, and knighted in 1904. "Tommy" Fuller was one of the most esteemed 

 and respected men in South African circles. 



PIET ARNOLDUS CRONJE, the Boer general (see E. B. vii, 5Oic), died at Klerksdorp, 

 Transvaal, on the 4th of February 1911, aged 75. Since the war ended he had sunk into 

 comparative obscurity. 



Sir JACOBUS ALBERTUS DE WET, Member of the Legislative Council of Cape Colony, 

 died at his home in Cape Colony on the 26th of March 1911, aged 71. He came of an old 

 South African family. He was appointed British Agent at Pretoria in 1890, during the 

 critical period (see E. B. xxvii, 200 et seq.) which ended with the closing of the Vaal River 

 Drifts, and his name was familiar in connection with the proceedings after the Jameson raid 

 in 1896. 



Sir HENRY GEORGE ELLIOT, born in 1826, died at Cape Town, 29th of November 1912. 

 He entered the Royal Marines in 1847 and served through the Crimean War. In 1877 he 

 became chief magistrate of Tcmbuland, and for 26 years he took a great share in the govern- 

 ment and development of Kaffraria (see E. B. xv, 63oa). 



Sir THOMAS CHARLES SCANLEN, the Cape Colony politician, died at Cape Town, on the 

 1 5th of May 1912, aged 77. He was admitted Attorney of the Supreme Court of Cape 

 Colony in 1866, sat in the House of Assembly from i87O-<)6, and was Prime Minister of the 

 Colony from 1881-84 ( see -E- B. v, 248b, and 242c). In 1894 he was appointed Legal Adviser 

 to the British South Africa Company, and held the position of Ac-ting Administrator of Rho- 

 desia at intervals from 1898-1907. He was knighted in 1884. 



ARTHUR JESSE SHEPSTONE, the Natal politician, died at Pietermaritzburg on the 3Oth 

 of September 1912, aged 59. He was born in 1852, the son of Sir Theophilus Shcpstone 

 (see E. B. xxiv, 840), and was educated in Natal. He was a digger at the Kimberley Diamond 

 Fields in 1871, and served as a trooper in the Natal Carbineers during the Langalibalele 

 rebellion in 1873. In 1876 he was appointed Labour Agent for the Natal railways. In 1887 

 he became a resident magistrate, and served in various districts. In 1909 he became Sec- 

 retary for Native Affairs in Natal. 



See The South African Almanack (Cape Town, yearly) edited by E. Glanville, a good gen- 

 eral reference book; A. S. Brown and G. G. Brown, The Guide to South and East Africa (Lon- 

 don, yearly); The South African Municipal Year Book (Cape Town, 1912); The Report of the 

 Commission on Trade and Industries (Pretoria, 1912) and other Union Blue Books (particulars 

 may be obtained at the office of the High Commissioner for South Africa, Sir Richard Solomon 

 72, Victoria Street, London, S. W.); E. H. L. Schwarz South African Geology (London, 1912). 

 For history see Sir Edgar Walton, The Inner History of the National Convention of S. Africa 

 (London, 1912) mainly a summary of speeches; Basil Worsfold, Union of South Africa (Lon- 

 don, 1912); Sir William Butler, An Autobiography (London, 1911), contains S. African 

 chapters. (F. R. CANA.) 



