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Barkley, who, by virtue of orders from home, 

 arrived at Kimberley in hot haste, and summarily 

 dismissed the Administrator, and almost all the 

 other officials much to the joy of everybody else. 



Shortly after this Major Lanyon was appointed 

 Administrator, and if he was deficient in tact and 

 talent, he was at least free from all tendency to 

 turpitude. In view, however, of the national 

 disgrace which disclosures made by the actors in 

 the Arnott swindle might make public, it became 

 imperative to provide against the probable danger 

 by making satisfactory provision for those in 

 possession of a dangerous knowledge of disgraceful 

 secrets. Arnott was silenced by a pension of, I 

 believe, 1,000 a year; Southey was not forgotten. 

 Indeed, all the subordinate actors in this disgraceful 

 affair were provided for at public expense, in some 

 shape or other. 



This was certainly a chivalrous act on the part of 

 Mr. Disraeli's Government, if somewhat lacking in 

 wisdom considered from an ethical point of view and 

 in defiance of the sturdy maxim of " Fiat justitia, 

 ruat ccelum." For my part, oblivious of possible 

 political exigencies, I, after reading Judge Stocken- 

 strom's summing-up speech, interviewed Major 



