Mr. Schreiner, the ex-Attorney-General of the Cape, has not cut by any means such a good figure before the Royal Commission on South Africa since he fell into the hands of which may be called the cross-examining counsel.—Searecly anything in the proceedings of the Commission—even the most startling part of Mr. Rhodes's evidence—has been more interesting than Mr. Chamberlain's examination of Mr. Schreiner. The Coloni skill which would to Lord Russell of Killowen himself, drew from the witness admission after admission as to the conduct of President Kriiger and the Transvaal Government. Mr. Schreiner, though he says he has no Dutch blood in his veins, is evidently in far greater sympathy with the Boers than most of the Anglo-Dutch colonists at the Cape; but his attempt to gloss over the repeated attempts of the Transvaal Government to velate the London Convention, and his attempts also. to minimise the provocation which the Outlanders at Johannesburg received, have been completely upset by Mr. Chamberlain's cross-questioning. The importance of all this lies of course in the evidence which it affords that Mr. Chamberlain intends—as indeed he hinted in the House of Commons when the Commission was reappointed—to make the enquiry the Lasis not only of reparation to the Boer Government for any wrong that was done to them in the Jameson raid, but also ofa demand upon them for the redress of the Outlanders' grievances and for a less grudging recognition of the right of the suzerain Power,
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