SIR BARTLE FRERE ON THE SITUATION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5493, 25 June 1879, Page 6

SIR BARTLE FRERE ON THE SITUATION.

Cat-e Town, May 11. At the public dinner given at Potchefstroom on Monday, the sth, to the High Commissioner, His Excellency repeated what he had stated to the assembled Boers as to his belief in the entire finality of tho annexation, and his hops that all patriotic inhabitants) of tho Transvaal would now address themselves to aiding the Government to finish the Zulu war, and to carry out practical measures of internal improvement, and such self-government as the British Uαvernmenl; were willing and anxious to see them exercise, to the full extent accorded to their brethren in the Cape Colony. In expressing his gratitude for tho support given by public opinion in South Africa to his measures, His Excellency said no private or personal feelings would ever interfere with his giving the best services he could render to his sovereign and country as long as Her Majesty's Government thought his services could be r.neful to the important measures they are carrying out in South Africa* RAILW-AYTO DELAGOA BAY. Iα consequence of action by committee on railway matters, Government has authorised Mr. Farrell, civil engineer, to go over country betweeu Delagoa Bay and Pretoria to report upon practicability of line. Mr. Farrell starts with Danford in ten days. Examinations to be complete enough to allow commencement of working operations in sections. Detailed survey to be taken afterwards as work proceeds. High Commissioner and Administrator both anxious to forward railway, and impressed upon committee desirability of collecting all data from all parts of the territory soon as p ossible.