Brigadier-General E.B. Macnaghten, representing the South African War Veteran Society, replying 10 the toast, gave an interesting historical sketch of the South African War Jand interspersed it with personal recollections. He referred' to. the Jamieson raid which consolidated the Boer forces and its effect on subsequent events. President Kruger. lhe said, revealed a great vein of obstinacy which might otherwise have altered things but afterwards when the Boers realized the game was up they resorted to guerilla warfare and defied the might of the British Empire for two and half.
Nevertheless, he had the treatest respect for those men who, whatever might have been said, fought fair, Eight years after peace was declared the Union wa: Created. which, Brigadier-General Macnaghten said, was one, of the most long sighted and judicious acts of statesmanship ever fathered by the British Government.
Replying. to the toast_on behalf of native-born, South Africans. Morris Stranack welcomed the guests and expressed the congratulations of South Africans on the appointment of. Mr. Mossop as Judge of the Supreme Court.
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