THE OUTLOOK IN CAPE COLONY.

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

THE OUTLOOK IN CAPE COLONY.

ssends- the Loudpfa. Times some, extracts from a private letter |'eceiv>4 from- a, figefad who has.' just gone back to settle' in Cape Colony, from which is. taken the follow- | ing:— "This place (Worcester) is a mass of seething • drseontent and rebellion. In • the- main street i»>, displayed in frbnt<oi a large^tore a. picture of Steyte aiid Kruger, »-and on one side a--pamtmg» (from, the Bper^ point '6f view) off^the battle; of Col?-; 'enso, and on the -Mtfer^^ -Elandslaagtc, 1 was actually hissed at^in. the. street because I look like->a typical Englishman. , Fancy -this in your - own . country ! , If ihe .Engli§k people ,at don't .".buck up" nO Englishman will be' able' to ..live in the colony/ .There , i^aa" extensive system of boycott; which the Government not .only - allqws, but is the' power through which it > takes place. Openly disloyal are the Dutch here in Worcester/ Liteutenant-General ' the HOn. . Sir Neville Lyttelton, commanding. ,in South Africa, recently sent home particulars of- the distribution of the forces which have been told off to form the garrison of the fou£ colonies as decided upon for present requirements. '...>,-< It is -proposed ..X.adjwnUb should -,b.e abandoned.- 'as' a large military station for Natal, and castle" substituted'/ Under' the scheme' drawn up oy the local authorities the principal military -• centres will be Bloemfojatein, Pretoria, Po^chefstroom . Sianderton, arid Newcastle., At each of these places a. regiment of cavalr^y units of Royal Artillery; and a brigade of infantry will be stationed until further orders. - Bleowfontein \» occupied by the 20th Hussars, the 76th Battery R.F.A., the 2nd . Battalion Sputh Wales Borderers, the, 2nd "Bat-, talion Glbucdsiershire Regiment, the Ist Battalion' Worcestershire Regiment, and the 4th. Battalion Rifle Brigade ; Pretoria by the Bth 'Hussars, the TOth Mountain Battery, R.G.A., the 2nd Battalion -the Duke of. Cornwall's LX yi the^lst Battalion Wel.-«li Regiment, • the 2nd Battalion Sejaforth Highlanders, and tbe, 2nd -Battalion > Lemsier Regiment ; Potchefstrbom by the Ist - Dragoon Guards,' the 85th Battery R^F.A., the 2nd Battalion Norfolk Regirrient, the 2nd Batalion Somerfcetsbiro . L;L-,"*,'and , Ist Battab'on Royal ' "Welsh" 'FnsJifers,;' Standertbn by tbe 10th Huspars, the 83rd -Battery R.F.Ar, the 2nd Battalion Devonsbiro Regiment, -t,he,.2nd,,Battal-. ion Scotiisfi..^f(ftff** I M,, fh'e ' Up "Battalion Manchester '^T«<g v iriWntf j' , and Newcastle by the 7th Dragoon Guards the 2nd,, 4th. Bth, 3Sth, and 78th . Batteries R.F.A., the 2nd Battalion W,est Yorkshire Regiment, . ancl- the 2nd -Bat'taJion-- . Middioso* • Regiment. Another important post is Middle barg, "Transvaal, held by the 2nd Dragoon" 'GuafdKT the 84th Battery

R.F.A., the Ist Battalion Royal Scots, and the 2nd Battalion Roya] Scots Fusiliers. The other places in the .Transvaal v ch~dssn fpr^ military posts are KrugerOTOrp : (hiekC ! by the "Ttfa— ffTrsgßrsr~T BatUsiy-RrEhA:, and ■the .Is^ l) ' Battali^ajKiirig^ X)W Scottish - BorUerers)J-^^Uetib\irgf^(ls*; ,Bat ; taliorf ' Kbyal Imm |tegiinenti )> ■■ Mb(cba/ dodorp (3rdRifles),: Barberton' (2ri<i Battalioto LiriidolnshhJe! Regiment), Pietersburg (2nd Battalion, Northanwtonshire Regiment^ "dnci kjßKanne>burg'(4s't'Baitalion ,s A ! rgyll«.ai^:l \ HigEfanders).* In>,tJbe^.>(^ngs. vßiverv Biver Colony f garrisons on a smsflfcr^ scale .provided for.. Kroorisisa (14th Hussnr^ 2nd Battalion Royal (West.. Surrey ■Regiments and 2nd 'Battalion Worcestershire /Reguneut)*, :s " Harrismith (3i:d Dragoon Guards, 61^'J(attery R.F.A, Ist Battalion SQOt'K 'Staffordshire Ec- , giment, and 4th, Battalion, , { King." a < Royals Rifles ) , and I '! K'Ladyb'rand (2nd Battalion 'Northumberland ' Fusiliers). :The smaHer v staJionW" m aintained; .i^ Cape CQlony- and? '.Na-tal. ; Midfttebtirg (16th Lancers'^ 10 th, 20th, and 28th-.Batteriesj^ r^i:%A:%; and tplionfßoy^^vfiuap^iin^y^^OTS^ Stellenbosch (2nd B;r,agf)<>ns and 44th Battery... R.^.A.^.^NamisWpoort (2jkl -Battalion Bedfordshire; Regiment and 2nd Battalion Wil±sln^ { Burgersd.orp( Ist Battalion ponnawght Raiigersj, Wynbcr*£l. .'(Sxil "' Battalion Northumbei;la.nd , .( slßu^eW)/ , (2nd, Battalion^j^^yfli' ";|n|j.|skilling Fiisilier^) ; l)f^i4zbtarg^(|tnd v vßattalion Royal Lancaster KegijrTent)r ,aho^ 4 tji§ Modder . River (82h'd ..Battery R.F.A., Jj'and 2nd L B^JaJkin -^ Royal,, I^ish, Rifles). •-,'*' y?;.u fiH.u. 7*l , It" is hoped do away many of the ;^afe stetions -of any considerable re^ctabn .01 tire fbrces now rat, 'Sir]TNevme"Xyt|citoji*s