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NY AM SOl'TII AFRICA. 



pUcsstld tfct frrmtikiH settlement A bunrher 

 iMstd VM Ooidt, a rvprfwrnt n 

 rara, ho one* iiisnnil Umb*f*saand M.lhln 

 HOST protectorate. ami who 

 had obtained Important concession v 

 Marrh. IHW. to exercise the rights that t 



-.I** had bestowed upon hU associate or 



,. ..^ ',- .-' .V-: - ju.^b.t,,.,, 



ad Ury tan*, An BnfUsh commissioner 

 MMttd ttMUKkn was thereupon tent into the 

 1 ..n tho rtnrnjfthof hi rv|ort and 

 IJII IIMliasntS that hr made with the . hi. N 



of Natal mid Zululand proclaimed 

 in Mar the annotation to ZuluUnd Of t!u torri- 



torifW of Sarabaaii. MdhUleni. mid t'moegesa, 

 A protectorate WM proclaimed orer Amatonga- 

 .ffaland.aa far at the coast and up 

 to ibe Poftttffueee front i I '. -rt tigueae 



btwadary UM dirides the kingdom ..f > 



- that the chief owe* allegiance to Portu- 

 gal in respect to UM northern and to Great 

 Britain in reaed to the .utl..-m naif "f 



territory. The Governor of Zululand was ap- 



for British Ama- 



t.-ncmUodTexcept as regards the Portuguese 

 linsSiMinni and the South African Republic, 

 coming within the province of the 



annexing the Lebombo 

 states caused great e\ it.-ment and con- 

 tioa in Pretoria and among the I >ut<-h of South 

 Africa. The Boers of the Transvaal saw their 

 hopes of having a seaboard frontier cut off; 

 ore than that, their claim to an independent 

 railroad ouUet was made subservient to the de- 

 sieve of the Natal colonial*, and in this th.y 

 foreboded an intention on the part of the I'.m'- 

 Wi Government to gain control also of the 

 Dsstgoa Bay mute, and to give effect to its pre- 

 rro|4ire right to acquire the bordering Portu- 

 guese possession!, thus inclosing the Dutch re- 

 public* in a complete ring of British territory 

 and controlling all their communications and 

 commerce with the outside world. 



BrltUh s,,,,th Uric.,. north of 



1 Bcchuanaland 



is tbe sphere of operations of the British s.uth 

 . Company, of whirh (Veil Rhodes is 

 chairman. The area of this country, to which 

 the name Bhodeaia has been given, is aU.ut 

 78QUOOO mare miles. Railroads are being con- 

 structed from Beira, on the Portuguese coast, 

 and from the terminus of the Cape 1 

 burg into the gold region of Mashonaland and 

 MatabeMand. Of the former railroad, 75 mllei 



naUiHl. wa* proceeded with, ami 

 ^8.1*4. Arrang. 

 IflH for ex 



oter by the Cape G' 



of 100 mile, t. 



wm 



were 



- Maf<-kiiif; 



to Buluwaro at a c 

 prrial GorenuBtat contribute* .". In the 

 gold districts, which have an area of 550 

 sqmre mil. town* hare tieen built at Sali-l.urv. 

 Victoria, Hartlrv Hill and Balnwav... H,,),',. 

 wayo, the former capital of the Matabele king, 



Lobenguln, had. in the beginning of 1895. a pop- 

 ulalion of The members of 



the) pioneer expedition which went to Mashona- 

 land ill l*!Nliuid the men who were eidisted in 

 iilist the Matabele in |V> 



warde<l with minim: claims or farm- 1 ..: !'. 



-ptemlMT. is.|. the lands E 

 Mashonaland for farms amounted (.. 1 , 

 acres, and in Malabelehind HH) claims had been 

 I for farms of 6,000 ai-^^ each. The 

 . oinpaiiy had an original capital of 

 1.000,000, and nearly that amount was paid in 

 by the shareholder* m ca-h. Subsidiary com- 

 paiiH-.. called the lulled t : i pa n y 



and the Kxploring Company, were formed under 

 an agreement that they should recein ."<> p, r 

 cent, of all profits, ami in December. 1 *!:',. they 

 were amataunated with the parent company, 

 and f 1,000.000 of new stock was issued to their 

 shareholders. There is a deU-nture debt of 

 650.000. The company has established 

 administration in the Kuropeaii settlements. It 

 draws its revenue from mining and trading \i- 

 censes, the sale of business stands in the towns. 

 and the postal and telegraph sen ices. The tele- 

 graph, which was extended to Salisbury (] 

 has been connected by the African Transconti- 

 nental Telegraph Company with Blant\! 

 assaland, and ultimately telegraphic communica- 

 ti-.n is to be established by land with Kgypt and 

 the Kuropcan system of telegraphs. The com- 

 pany owns south of the Zambesi l..Vl miles of 

 telegraphs. The company has 100 white olli- 

 cials and 250 white police.' 



The administrator of the company's tcrri 

 south of the Zambesi js hr. Leander 9 

 Since the close of the Matabele war th< 

 bele have accepted the new order, and pro\.- to 

 ilualtle factor in the labor supply Ix'th for 

 agricultural and for mining work. Then 

 about 1(K),000 cattle in the country, and merino 

 sheep have been introduced from the orange 

 State, The farming industry has made 

 considerable progn-ss in both Mash,', naland and 

 Matabeleland. Besides gold, beds of coal. salt, 

 "cstos have been found. Iron is widely 

 distributed. The cost of the Matabele war to 



upany was i 1 11 3,488. The compa 

 p. cts to be able to pay its current expense- out 

 of the general revenue 'in 1895. The ordinal 

 mie in IS<M was about 50,000 and e\ ; 

 <MHI. The company expects to have the Beehu- 

 analund protectorate, including Khama's coiin- 

 trv at: part of the Kalahari I 



added to its ten:' ', be company possesses 



the mineral rights in Khamaland al'readv and 

 land coneessioiis for all the country north of 

 Mafeking. A lar-.- proportion of These terri- 

 its .f high, healthful table-land, n- 

 M-mbling Mashonaland, inhabited by peaceful, 

 indu-trious races. Kxploration> have been made 

 whirh show that the country is fertile, and that 

 where surf [4 lacking supplies can be 



found by digging wv!K An agreement has 



made with the Impei; :iinent 



whereby the company is empowered to extend 

 its administration n".rth of the Zambesi lift to 

 the southern end of Lake Tanganyika and the, 

 confine* of the Congo . The new ter- 



ritory comprises the whole of the British sphere 

 north of the Zambesi except the Nyassaland 



