NI SOITI1 API: 



100 



u. The ATM of CAM Col- 



ire mile*, ami the populai 



. 



milce, and^e ipuUtkm &0,00u,o 



H.III fiUWftr ,.' / I I,,- ,-,,- ,', . ' i ,, 

 ' 



;i in .11.1 ,.f sdies 

 ' 99J80 Kuropean children r 



.r m \m . 



U and college* in I--V nh 106.6H3 , 



^ iV.M Mi AM -ra^'f aIN n.la 



iropean |N.|.tiiati. n toiiM read 



I, 



., 80, IHM. wn 



.-v 887.979 from the colon in! 



II fr.xn 

 lltlltv wu 



<!! and Mukuiu' fuii-1 of 



1 



f.T |Nl||l 



-tal.h-Miii.nl. aii.i 1*9)6,428 1H 



ecu. Tbe budget of expenditures for 180? i 



ti .Ian. 1. lK96.amotr 

 ts <*f thr livi-ioiial coon* 



ltk I" t'l.ll l.ll-l. 'I'll*- mull. 



\ Mini tli.- expenditures i 



nwriTe and l'i ...In. ti.m. Th- pt.-i> 



.>: ,.,- 





 :''.?."ii pounds; of 



f rni- 

 1,686,566 pouml .noS: 



: ofl-ntt,, 



V*- .-art!,. ii.|.^.i.:i ihccp, IJI89J86 - v>. 

 ?.i>vi,..-- , in IVH;. 



The total value of th. unj-n - in 1895 w 

 C04.HMO. The tiu>n-liitiiili<4> iiniMiri.H atiioiint- 



exports of colonial prtxlmv, i'18,798.187. 



uj-.rt- of t.. \tilt* ami ap|iir. 



. 



.Wi.WO; of Angora 



344.50?: 



i tn 1. 1 mi-til. fiV.'^V. 

 i came from < 

 *h poawmionm anl 



BL448.690 from forrign ciuntrir:of :' ex| rta, 



lint- 



bfc i Domearion*. nn.l i^ll.rr. t. -untriea. 



"95 thrir were 851 1 1 MthL 

 1 in the ocran tnnie, of 

 iOi: ami 



" -5,097 ton*, were British. In the roa.t* 

 n' rntrml. anil 



* 

 uu-rvhant mat 





aw*edof8sftffliigvssssJ*of698toit,sjtd99 



touittiimiralioM. The 

 the railroads exeept 905 miles 

 railn^U 



nly 63 ii. 



and on Jan. 1. 1896, (he 



lea. The system extends bit 



and fit-. 



being eoi r the 



i- 



to Mafeking. 96 miU. was afco b, 

 r. and is operated for it by the 

 The capital expended in ike Govern- 



' . -, " . .... 



expenses 9lf596j01&. There were transported dur- 

 . yor 6.709096 passing, r. ai. 



: wing through the post 

 office in 1895 was 16.609,*. 



-460; of books and mm- 



I : . ; : ' : .- -.' i. ..::] 



; expenditures of postal end telegraph service, 

 receipts from telegrams wave 97.- 

 Musseges worth 



:ii5 to dt|>at<h at regular rate*: 

 90,608. The telegraph lines have a length oY OI6 

 miles. The G< from tbe tele- 



..1- in 1*7::. and has built tbr 

 rest of the system. Tbe number of dispatches in 

 1895 wss 1,798,061. 



1 I^gMatlon.-Cape Colony has 



.insvaal and the mi' 



aj-ital into S.uth Afric a and of a new population 

 to consume its products. Tbe dsprossfon of tbe 

 gold-mining in.lu-try rvacted on the commercial 

 tu'rii nltiirnl inton^t.- of tin* Caije, and in 1897 

 \ pension received a sudden check. Tbe im- 

 ports at the South Afri.an ports in 1896 amounted 

 to 86.0UO.OOO. | N .rts to only llV.UOO.OUii. 



As capital ceased to flow in the balance could only 

 be fettled by shipments of specie, which began in 



a year. The rinl q* -i, in *|>it- of quarantine 

 N at last invaded tbe colony. Tbe rail- 



t. in IMD&andtlx 

 .-rninrnt Ml j., 

 an a 



u'ht to work all rail- 

 option of thr llrira 



nal. for three years, with the option of four Tears 

 more. A railroad convention was concluded wbere- 

 took over the lines built 

 within its boroN ( 'ape Government. 



In thr Parliament, which began its srssJon OB 



April -J. t>ilU w, n Introduced to amend the mining 



to encourage the development of the resources) 



.mote public health, to amend 



the luniu-y law. and to give greater responsibtlity 



to comnuinitir* education and 



grant m.-n- lib* ml ni.i toward tbe maintenance of 



Mie schools, The eostoms union art was 



miiflM. Thr rab act was extendr. ! rans- 



the measure was diminishing 



thraogho 



i: Mr. I- -.-sidrnt of thr 



kaixlrr Bond, movnl a rmolution deprrcaling war 

 between Kuropean peoples, expressing the 

 tion that psMeoin best U - Uithfnl 



ami rrciprnceJ observance of all obligation* under 

 t reaties and con vent ions, and suggest ing that inaens 

 should be derised to obtain a settlement of any 

 .iiffrrvnees wising as to tbe interpretation of those 

 obligations, so that by the adoption of a policy of 



