Mr. Chamberlain, on the 11th ult., presided, in the Grand Hall of the Hotel Cecil, at the third annual dinner of the Verona Club, which consists exclusively of officials in the Colonial Service. The com-Gementi-Smith, Sir G. W. Des Veeux, Sir riy, numbering 270, included Sir C. H. Blake. Mr.'C. W. Sneyd-Kynn-riley, and Mr. Hugh Clifford. Mr. Chamberlain, in the course of his speech, said the country now had a peace which he thought he might say was honourable to both parties. They had been very generous to their late opponents in regard to everything that concerned personal and private matters, but they had given up nothing of substance, and done nothing to prejudice the ultimate solution of the South African question, to which they were all loo as a justification for the war. Tt was Geed a good augury for the future that the Boers had shown a ready and loyal spirit to accept the altered conditions. If those feelings continue!, as he thought they would, they might rely upon it that we were at the beginning of am era of prosrity in South Africa which that county ad previously never known. Sir Henry Blake then proposed the toast to Mr. Chamberlain, and said they knew that there was a strong man at the head of affairs in the Colonial Office. As proof of this, he referred t" an investigation conducted a. fow years ago into the conduct of British: trade, and to the right hon. gentleman's: Baal germ. Mr. Chamberlain, in res-investigations into the subject of the
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