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A little item of news comes home by the Cape

mail of June 4th of which we may hear again. The Boers of the Transvaal Re- public disapprove the protection which the British extend to the Basutos, and have sent home two agents, the Rev. G. Wandewall and Commandant de Villiers, to protest. Failing an audience in London, they are to solicit the good offices of any foreign power. Suppose North Germany accepts the Republic as a colony. She wants colonies, and though the Republic's territory is a little place, even admitting her own claims, not much bigger than France, still a powerful State owning it ought to rule all South Central Africa. The Boers do not want money but immigrants, and Germans would just suit them.

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