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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIX, Issue 22, 27 February 1891, Page 15

Why do people worry themselves about the best way to civilize Africa, nßks the St. James's Gazette. The Germans have found the secret, and will presently begin to put their recipe in practice. Nothing conld bo Rimnlpr ; Krnnn guns and lappr-hfer A vpsrpl is about to start for East Africa with a cargo of quick-firing mountain guDa for the scientific exploration and missionary jouneys undertaken by that meek apostle Major Wissman. Aho it will takeout all the appliances for a brewery, and a dozen brewers skilled in the concoction (forgive the word I It is now always used here in this connection) of German beer. We trust these agents of civilisation will arrive in time for Christmas ; but we fear the beer will not be ready so soon. It takes longer to mount a brewery than to mount a battery. Still there is an advantage even in that. The gunners will be able to enjoy some good practice before their hands grow unsteady. Not much longer will travellers need to complain of the pestilential atmosphere of Eastern Afiica. Suon it will posswes th characteristic perfume of civilisation ; beer and gunpowder,