is just a little too magnificent even for the sturdiest of Imperialists; but in his loseer ideal of a United British South Africa everybody, apart from the little insignificant band of Little. Englanders, is in hearty sympathy. And above all, the men who have put their money into the Company have a firm belief, in spite of his one great' blunder, in Mr. Rhodes's ability to carry out his' schemes. He promises that in fifteen months expenditure and income shall balance one another, and that when Rhodesia has so far progressed. that government by Chartered Company is no longer j adequate to its needs, the capital which the shareholders have contributed shall become a charge in the shape of a National Debt on the great self-governing Colony.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.