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has hardly found her feet; though every day she gets a 
surer foothold. The reason of this is twofold. She 
suffers as yet from the extraordinary variety and 
difference of the numerous commodities that offer 
possibilities, and more than possibilities, of profit. 
Also, she suffers from the form of Government under 
which she labours. Both matters will right themselves. 
At the present day, as each enterprise is proved, it 
offers a smaller profit than the original speculators 
anticipated. Except in fairy tales and occasionally in 
mines, this is the invariable experience throughout the 
world. As a consequence, the next speculation, as yet 
untried, finds numerous adherents. Every day, 
however, certain products get hall-marked as staple 
industries, and every year it gets more and more realised 
that in a small country we must stand by the extra 
fine quality of a few productions rather than by their 
quantity and variety. With regard to the system of 
Government, the Protectorate subsists mainly at the 
present day on faith and hope. The principal ground 
for complaint lies in the quantity of cooks who contrive 
to spoil the flavour of so excellent a soup. It is 
extremely difficult to get an answer, or at any rate a 
quick, definite answer, to any question or complaint 
through the long chain of links which separate the 
settler from the Colonial Office. Thus a small 
privilege or exemption may be wanted from the 
District Commissioner. The District Commissioner 
approves, but must ask the Provincial Commis¬ 
sioner. The Provincial Commissioner, though 
personally in favour of the request, is somewhat 
doubtful as to how far native rights will be infringed, 
and must inquire of the Land Officer and Crown 
Advocate. Fortune favouring the settler, the Crown 
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