SPOILS TO THE VICTIMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8544, 26 March 1908, Page 3

SPOILS TO THE VICTIMS.

A letter received at Home from an Englishman travelling in the Orange River Colony, states , inter alia: "The new Government is in power. I wont to Bloemfontein, and witnessed the opening of the first Parliament in all its pomp and circumstance, which was quite according to Cocker. A short session followed the opening, admitting only of sufficient time to allot- salaries to tho Ministers and members, and it is not without astonishment that one notes even in those days of depression and retrenchment that these patriotic Dutchmen value their services as Ministers at £2500 each and that the members require a fixed £150 per annum and three guineas a day during the session. Words fail me. So far as the English colonists are concorned, I do not think they have much to fear,' except that they are gradually being metamorphosed into Boers. I do not think, however, that those Englishmen who are still loft in responsible official positions will hold thorn a couple of years from now, for those whom the Boers cannot at once retrench without obvious and glaring injustice, will bo shunned, boycotted, and abused to such an extent that they will clear at any price. The only thing that I can see that may save South Africa for tho British is Union or Federation, but I have not much faith even in that as a safeguard. We have simply lost the game."