LORD RANFURLY INTERVIEWED.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 8697, 16 December 1899, Page 2

LORD RANFURLY INTERVIEWED.

HIS VIEWS ON THE WAR. (Per Press Association.) Wellington, This day. Interviewed by the Post, Lord Ranfurly said everywhere he went in the Australian colonies he found an intense feeling of loyalty to the Motherland and a glowing feeling of Imperialism, that waa being fostered on all hands." His Excellency would not express any opinion in regard to the tactics in the Transvaal war, but in regard to the outcome of it he adopts a reassuring tone. He dues not place the greatest reliance on some of the cablegrams that come to us from Capetown. It the initial stages of such an arduous and difficult campaign, he says it is only to be expected that we must suffer occasional severe reverses, especially seeing that the enemy has an enormous advantage in position in extremely difficult country. Though there has been considerable loss of life, he points out that there has been nothing absolutely jeopardising our position, ami ho looks forward before. long, when our troops have been reinforced and have overcome the present initial obstacles of the country, to seeing a very different state of things. No Englishman, he added, can have any doubt as to the final result. His Excellency expressed his delight that the New Zealanders at the front bad, according to the short telegraphic account received, done so well in their first brush with the enemy. He felfc confident that they, as well as oil our colonial troops, would prove worthy soldiers in any future operations they might be called upon to undertake.