[110]. The Government is wakening to this fact and is beginning to take active measures.
[111]. I regret to learn that this gentleman, who was much esteemed in Barberton, is recently dead.
[112]. One of the latest analyses gives Welsh coal 81.0 carbon, 6.40 ash; Transvaal 77.20 carbon, 7.20 ash.
[113]. The truth of my prognostications has, I am sorry to say, become to a certain extent verified even before my ink is dry.
[114]. In the appointment of a British Resident care will have to be exercised that no one interested in the gold speculations of the country be nominated.
[115]. The census returns of the entire population in 1864, twenty-three years ago, was 1098.
[116]. In the concession granted in 1873 to Moodie for a railway from Delagoa Bay to Pretoria, a grant also was made him of 850 farms of 6,000 acres each, in case he should be successful. Curiously enough these were the very farms on which the present Kaap gold fields are situated.
[117]. This was brought forward very prominently in the report of the select committee on Railway to Delagoa Bay, appointed by resolution of the House of Assembly, 5th of April, 1880, C. K. White, chairman.
[118]. Cape Brandy.
[119]. Chief detective officer at the South African Diamond Fields.