Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-06-10
Downright, Associated Press.)

ASORJ
LONDON, June 80 all interests
and purposes the South African war,
SO far as the average Britisher is con-
cerned, is over.
capture of President Kruger and the
homecoming OF Lord Roberts his call
endar of probabilities contains moth
ing of vital Importance. Already
China is becoming a keen rival of
South Africa as the burning question
of the day. The capture of 500 mem
bers of the Imperial Yeomanry, which
a few months ago would have thrown
the nation into a fit of dependency,
self analysis and furious abuse of its
own officers, has passed comparative
ly unnoticed. The work of stamping
out the rebellion, for such, according
to the British point of view, is the ma
ture of the opposition now encounter
ed, is too prosaic and too common in
the annals of the British army to mer-
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slowed on each detail of the sanguln-
airy struggle.
What shall we do with it?" is far
more the topic of the hour than spec
ulation regarding the expenditure in
lives and money that seem likely to
ensue before the pa%ciication of the
Beers is accomplished. Large numbers
OF enquiries are daily made in Lon
don anent the prospects of the
UndeveIoped Crown Lands.
OF Natal, while the rich of
the Transvaal and Orange River Col
ony form the basis of frequent ar
ticles. Before many months have
passed the steamship companies ply
ing to and from South Africa, the
companies connected with the deyel-
opment of that port of the globe and
other equally interested and well in
formed look for a large and steady
emigration OF trained British agricul-
turists and others to fields on which
the blood of Briton and Boer is scarce
ly dry. All the letters from the front
indicate an increasing desire on the
part of a large proportion of the ir-
regular and colonial forces to settle
down in this fertile land won with
such cost to themselves. The British
High Commissioner, Sir Alfred Miller,
it is learned, is devoting his whole at
tention to evolving a scheme of civil
government applicable to the Orange
River Colony and the Transvaal and
relying to no little extent upon the
influence of the British settlers to ex-
ercise it. The Commissioner is in con-
slant communication with the Secre-
tary of State for the Colonies, Mr.. Jo-
seph Chamberlain, who has also got
the forces of the Colonial Office hard
at work on the problem. though the
keen-sighted officials believe the day
is still far distant when the military
administrators will be able to hand
I'VE
The Reins of Government
On safety to the civil authorities. Pro-
yiding the progress of the victorious
army in the Transvaal is tolerably sim
ilar to its operations in the Orange
River colony. Subsequent to the cap
ture OF Bloemfontein this apathy to-
wards military happenings and inter-
est in civil and commercial possibiil-
ties is likely to gain such a quick hold
that soon the war will almost be for
gotten. The contingency of President
Kruger's still undefeated forces scor-
ing any victory of consequence over
Lord Roberts is generally regarded as
so remote as to be scarcely worth men,
tion. The occupation of Pretoria, &C
cording to the Man-in-the-Street set
tied the whole matter.
In view of all the premature rejoic-
ings which Lord Rosslyn's incorrect
press despatch caused last week 1t is
interesting to note that the %aristocratic
young Journalist is chiefly remembered
in London for his diverting appear
ances in Hyde Park at the period when