RACIAL FEELING IN SOUTH AFRICA.

Auckland Star, Issue 311, 31 December 1900, Page 2

RACIAL FEELING IN SOUTH AFRICA.

r (To.the Editor.) jre: Sir,—Your correspondent "C.B. iV taljfe an extreme pro-Boei view of the situ tion in South Africa. According to' tl* writer the "English Government" (me a ft ing the British no doubt) has acted ye badly towards the poor Boers and i^° whole Dutch population is indignant ;0 such conduct. Well, irrom a Dutch po] of view, the hated Rooineks are behavl very badly indeed. When the Boers b vaded the British colonies of Natal a r the Cape the Britishers ought to ha thrown up the sponge and retired to th ** ships, leaving Mr Kruger monarch of 'c he surveyed in South Africa. Had t-° magnificent scheme succeeded, proba' ig his Imperial Majesty, Paul Kruger, E^ peror of Africa, etc;, would now be hi. r nobbing with the Czar and-the Kaiser, ; consulting with them as to the dispo c of the outlying portions of the late Brit s Empire in the Southern Hemisphere, iv fancy Eiriperor Paul would be satisfied to allow the other great Powers to dlv jj Australia and Tasmania between them n condition that he secured New ZeaU and the other Oceanic Islands to his o' c cheek, for Paul, to do him justice, 'I 1 cheek enough for anything. In faiiejii see our own beloved King Dick, acco)! panied by the Mayor and chief dignitar 01 of the city, receiving the mighty Autoc. of Africa on their.bended knees on i wharf, and grovelling in the dust to at(' v for poor Seddon's awful blunder in be H the first t" offer colonial help to the Bj n ishers. Of course, Seddon would be s& in chains to Capetown to be exhibited a cage, big enough (if such could be g to hold Cecil Rhodes and himself in c' same predicament. Hoping the mere i<P of such a glorious Dutch triumph j a help to console "C.8.".—1 am, etc., fl McALLISTEI M