must be a proud man to-day. Such a scene as that which took place at the Cannon Street Hotel yesterday has rarely been witnessed in the whole history of empire-building. After an interval of three years the directors of the British South Africa Company for the first time met their shareholders, and the man who was responsible for the Jameson Raid, who had been compelled to retire from the Premiership of Cube Colony, and who for a time was thought to have ruined his splendid career beyond hope of restoration, was welcomed back amid a scene of enthusiasm which was all the more impressive because it was displayed by sober business men who would hardly he expected to sacrifice self-interest to sentiment. Many of those who voted for the return of Mr. Rhodes to the Bourd of Directors are as strongly disposed as river
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