The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-05-14
SOUTH AFRICA CRYPTOGRAM
SENSATION is THE TALK
OF THE HOUR.
HIS DECIDED 70 SHIELD RHODES,
The Governments Attitude in the Mat
ter-Bicycle Companies Being Organ
lied Rapidly-Wales Giving the
Gossipers Something to Say.

London, May 8. Copyrighted, 1886, by
the Associated Press.)-The South Afri-
can troubles are the talk of the hour and
every other subject seems to have almost
disappeared from popular attention. The
announcement of the secretary of state
for the colonies, Mr.. Joseph Chamber
lain, of inquiry into the affairs of the
Chartered South Africa company, that
Cecil Rhodes is to be allowed to retain
his position as co-administrator of the
company's territory for the present, have
caused great disappointment among the
masses of Englishmen and others who
have experienced feeling of humiliation
and shame at the recent developments at
Pretoria.
Mr.. Chamberlain, it is well known,
yielded to the pressure brought to bear
upon him by friends of the company who
are influential socially and politically,
and it seems evident that the government
looming darkly in the distance, is scan
dial that may wreck a mystery.
Influential weekly papers here like the
Spectator, National Observer and Satur-
day Review, protest against the govern
ment's leaning toward the Chartered COM
pany after the latter's completely in the
Jameson raid has been established be-
yond the possibility of a doubt.
The Saturday Review, for instance
publishes six pages devoted to exposing
the plot against the Transvaal and as
| further evidence of the guilt of Cecil
| Rhodes, declares that Herr Kruger has
| proofs that DR.. Jameson, under Cecil
| Rhodes, intended to march upon Pretoria
after the capture of Johannesburg, should
| he overturn the government.
The wild speculation in bicycle company
shares continues here in spite of the fact
| that decline in the riding craze has beer
noticed among the leaders of fashion, who
were the first to give up their horses fol
the wheel. In this city, at Manchester
and Dublin, all sorts of companies con
nected with bicycling have been foatet
and their shares have been showed up
These shares float in tens and fifteens.
| The Dunlap Pneumatic Tire compan!
was foated on Monday with capital o.
f4,000,0O0
The earls of Delaware and Albemarl,
and the Duke of Somerset are on tn,
board of directors.
The agricultural outlook is very poo
on account of the drought and cold nights
The formation of an influential commit
tee headed by the Marquis of Lorne t,
purchase the house of the late Lore
Leighton for 100000 to be held in trus
for the nation and as a permanent resi-
dence for the president of the Roya
Academy, is not received with much fav
or Besides it is very doubtful if tn
president would be willing to exchange
his residence for the late Lord Leighton
fanciful structure.
The Chronicle, alluding to the subject
says:
'The house is an example that his tast,
was often faulty and nearly always sec
Ond-rate. The wood work is of an inferi
or example of cabinet making; the furni
ture is from modern empOriums. an,
even the work in the celebrated Moorish
court is modern and surpassed in man,
other houses in London"
Much dissatisfaction Is expressed owe
the non-success of Mr.. Richard Croker
plunge for the Fulwell plate at Kemptol
park yesterday with Eu Gale.
Mr.. Croker and his friends are said t.
have lost heavily and the poor shown;
made by Americans in the jubilee stake
today has added to his discomfort.
Mr.. Croker has sold Reb Banner to hi
trainer Waning, for $500.
The Globe remarks:
political economists throughout tn
world will watch with interest McKinle,
and the presidential campaign. The iso
latiOn of Great Britain through her fire.
trade policy is becoming daily more com
plete."