LOYAL SOUTH AFRICA.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 288, 5 December 1910, Page 4

LOYAL SOUTH AFRICA.

The Duke of Oonnaught has finished big Africa,n and has tlms complet«4 tj»e work assigned, tp him as official representative of the British Crown at the inauguration of the new Federal Commonwealth. §9 far as ca.n. be judged, %n giag'g emissary has 4i§chftrged his duties admirably; but" pven more noteworthy than hi§ tact and diplomatic courtesy has been the remarkable enthusiasm with which b.p has been everywhere received. The loyalists of South Africa, Ufee 98 "cpAonlais," are strongly democratic in their tastes; the Cape Dutch and the Boers nave even better reason for holding the doctrine that every man is every other man's equal, and for resenting any assumption of superiority on the part of anybody else. But apparently the people of South Africa, whether Britons or Boers, have found nothing to jar upon them in this solemn and ceremonious assertion of England's dominant authority; and the pomp and circumstance of this 6emi-royal progress through the country has aroused only the kindliest of feelings, and has evoked, loud and seemingly sincere expressions I pf loyalty tp England apd deyotipn to her Empire. Even after the convincing prppf that the have given us that they are now finally and honestly reconciled tp the situation, and have renounc-. pd any wish they ever bad to keep aloof from the British °* *0 contend against them, these remarkable denionstratipns of goodwill toward the representative of the British Throne are more than we could. rea.SQpablv hayg expected, and they fully confirm the declarations of Botha find b.16 colleagues that' racial strife in Sputh Africa is ended, and that in the future BritP ll # n 4 Eoer yii)i be as one.