THE CHAMELEON-LIKE BOND.

Taranaki Herald, Volume L, Issue 12179, 30 January 1903, Page 7

THE CHAMELEON-LIKE BOND.

PAPFJS CHANGES, KXECXjIED IN ,w . , CAMERA. -. Tiie * jfphanhesbiurg ' correspDiulont of the London Tim^s," dissoas^rig ihereceni: reconstitution of the Afiikander Bond^, .utters a' notable wato:ng. The movefile, 4?y?#" '^s^exccsaittjfly clever on t^par% oi'tiie Bond,. 'The, train atten^njwiilbe directed, tq'i-he South AfricaiLo.^axty,* and.dist wil'be 1 -assidxiQpslfetiih^ppw i ri JJ m ."lUc '»»y3S,of' . "ihe Bri^Jhu.puKJTQ witt 'a view to helping .theni.^^f orget ' the , Borid/^,rp i*Y o'nia, howeifeflr^l)^, clear to everyone a mere'Jchang^; of title smplfes*;nj6fhing,and sj> |lpng |>s tlie same orgeVtif ati'on is ije^x^od [ itik ; -the. sanie/ l an(i*'ffie*Jnetn'ods h'ioptSa^o a-t-tain thorn will not he aft^rfed."^ 1M Bond- might, perhaps, command mere confidence if "^public moating ol its members threw oye* i: ';tbe'-"£tesoit l<aders o^ the" "extr%n>istt* Section and- entirely, re-drafted the eonsfe'tuti.n. Uu : til such' At step is tf-.ken tkave i's no justification for isposiag tiie slight*: st areliance in any Bond p;.-otas'jai.ioiis oi loyalty. They stand oonvlo^ed by.thci acts... These paper ciiaay-is, " Oiet«t«d in camera,, (continues the eon"impendent),' shbuloi deceive irae but "these "wno are anxious'/ ■* o «»o dot-eive*{. It. is lamentable indeed io ha<e .io re-'^rd that, there are some such purple, even in the = Transvaal. With c.'niiflcteristic «hergy* Bond agents i»ave for some • time beeiT at work ,n Johannesburg, and there, is reason 1 tv> believer tr at there ' reports havo ct»avinc3d"tbe leaders ol the campaign that,- with certain nominal- changes, a k>otin t * could be obtained' in what lias bitheiio been regarded as the Oiiemy's scf.ai^boid. To what extent, if at all, these agentsand "some b£ our self-seeking • malcontents have been working together it is impossible to say; but the former was not, slow'io '^ee that the "undercurrent of K(Jislo,yalty' which is carefully' being fostered 'ln^ Johannesburg I ,, directed not' so much I ' against" '-"the i Crown as-ag-ainst the constituted "authority, might easily be turried'tb advantage" for their own ends.' ,The fact remains 4hat .certain? members 7 of a coterie which has of late been r rather prominently before the "Johannes&urg public have been making overtures bearing a striking resenablance 'to the course now adopted by the Bond in Cape Town. r The movement:', saci^asit is., is,p| ipourse iniinitesimalry small, Jarid .tfae 1 cprrespondent does not believe that it will make headway? but no good purpose can' be served, by- ignoring mjiciiinations'kt work-in the miclst of ; a, highly] strung population such .-, as ,that of Johannesburg.