THE CAPE GOVERNMENT.

Evening Post, Volume XVIII, Issue 3, 3 July 1879, Page 2

THE CAPE GOVERNMENT.

MR. STANLEY'S AFRICAN MISSION. ENORMOUS FAILURE. A grand fancy dress ball was given in Dublin in honor of the Moore centenary. Sir Garnet Wolseley's instructions are to provide for dividing the Cace of Good Hope Government into tour districts. Si r Bartle Frera is to remain Governor of the Cape Colony. Lord Beaconsfield, in announriDg Sir Garnet Wolseley's appointment, said that Sir Garnet Wolseley's rank gave him supreme command over Lord Chelmsford, but the country would not be deprived of the latter's services JVews has been received from Zanzibar that Mr. Sta> ley is busily occupied engaging porters for his j >urney into the interior of Africa, but that he preserves the utmost secresy as to the intentions of the Government. He acts for the Belgian Section of the International African Association. Mr. William Henry Punchard, a partner in the engineering firm of Clark & Punchard, who was connected « ith Baron Grant in floatiug the disastrous Lisbon Tramway Company, has failed. His liabilities are stated at £900,000. Mr. Rowen Clark, another member of the firm, failed in the early part oi last month for £760,000. The Times in a leading article says ; — "The adoption of the Californian Constitution is a surprise to the world. It is the most astounding instrument ever framed for the Government of a con -unity. If all the pet notions of reformers \.uO put forth their panaceas for the regeneration of the human race during the Paris Commune were embodied in the document, it would not appear wilder."