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GKEATKIl BRITAIN. ) BIR JC/HN BEANSTON-ia about to vacate the office 01 gal. Assistant Secretary to the Colonial, OfEce, I which he has held for 20 years, The post, which it Noftb C1500 a year, will now be conferred upon Mr. Hugh Bertram Cox. The retiring official has played many parts in life, both at home and in the colonies. His first inclinations were academic and be be- came a Fellow of All. Souls, but he was •mitten with legal ambition, and.j having been sailed to the Bar nearly 40 years ago, went out to Queensland as secretary "to the first Governor. Life tn Queensland was quite to the liking of the young barrister. He went into-politics and became Attorney- Greaeral in the Ministry cf Sir Robert Herbert. From Queensland he went to Hong Kong, where he again became Attorney-General, and, finally, judge, told then, returning to London, rejoined his old friend Sir R6bert Herbert at the Colonial Office as Assistant Under-Secretary. A CORRESPONDENT of the Westminster Gazette Writes: I have had an interview with one who, fror4 his position in India a few years since, could give me tome valuable information from his own ex- perience concerning the methods by which the fron- i tier tribe& contrive to get the supply of Government rIlles with which they are undoubtedly armed. A few Tears ago ah inquiry was ordered into the question, fmg it was then discovered tqt considerable num- ber, of rifles bad been lost or stolen from.the guard rooms of the different regiments, from military depots,and arsenals.. The number was not very Llorio", it ranged from li)0 to 200 rifles on the aver- age every year.. But these returns did not represent ^ojthing like the total number that were i»oiti<Tr ^u» fut>ui o wwvf &s the Afridis apd Orakzaia, Th<we was a regular organisation, which no doubt still exists,, for the pror c«ration of the rifles, And the men who did this dangerops work were, for the most part, Afghan. traders, who during the cold season spread them- selres over the whole of India in furtherance of their bqsipess. They did not of necessity work 'n connection with any particular tribal movement.; thpir object in getting the rifles was purely commer- cial a £ a rule, for they could be sold at an enormous profit, to the tribesmen. At the time this inquiry **as made the frontier police werg put on their guard, an some startling facts were brought to light as the result. Rifles were discovered concealed in the 1 rolla of bedding, clothes, and goods which, trader takes about with him. But if a few of the JttiuggJgrB were caught, many more must have escaped, J°* it was Impossible to keep guard along such a length of frontier. And it was by degrees discovered, that instead of getting out at the main stations, where would be subjected to a search, the w»ly Afghan Jrader would get out at a small wayside station where would attract no attention, and then bolt over the frontier with his contraband rifle. The e«^rne thing 18 going on at present, and the question is, how does the trader pick up his rifles ? It is, of course, illegal for any of the licensed dealers in firearms to have anything to do with military nfles of old or new pat- tern. But there is no doubt that a eoldsidemble tusinesi; is done through these dealers. And they get the rifles by the •aaie underhand dodges which the trade* himself uses. It is easy to imagine how the obsolete rifles find their way into these hands. When the or, esimiforthe'Martinitobe substituted for the Snider or the Lee-Metford for the Martini in its turn, the obsolete rifles were collected at the different arsenals, and were supposed to be rendered useless by being sawn asunder, lock and barrel. Then is the opportunity for the trader or dealer, who offers to bUy tjp a few of them for a sum that the sergeant ,!hose duty it may be to see to the destruction of the tiftdo is sometimes found willing, to take THERB are few researches more interesting than those which touch upon the discovery or manufacture diamonds. An explorer in. the mountains in *Jatal came upon the crater of an extinct volcano. *here was a very sizable lake at the summit, wd an the shore and soundings taken brought up sand which held small diamonds. There ISa good deal of interest manifested as to whether actual' diamond mine is discovered or whether gems were there by accident, being lost or ( thrown into the water. As the mountain's of th<a region are not supposed to be diamond-bearing, it is J *uRgeste<I that voloanlc action may have haasome- thing to do with thci formation of these precious 1 tones. Reports which have been collected by the British Central Africa Gazette from various firms and planters ençaged in coffee growing in British Central Africa Point to the continued prosperity of the industry. It 18 estimated that for this year the crop will yield Jbont 450 tons, arrd as every year new plantations are 1 heing 0pene(j up> an(l areas planted in previous years 9 Jre coming into bearing, there is every prospect of '• the supply ot coffee from Central Africa assuming large proportions. One of the largest planting J Proas report that although nobody is yet able to I lay down a single rule, we mean a hard-and-fast rule, 9 h less any fixed laws about coffee-planting in 0 this country, for the simple reason that the industry t ø IS too young yet, llDd we are without sufficient data ^tending over a number of years to go on, still from t1 the experience of the last three years we may safely 8 "'1 that Baffee-plan ting in British CentralJAfrica is, or be mad6, a perfectly safe, steady, and paying en- '• ^•"prise/* Experiments are being widely made as to best kind of shade trees for coffee bushes, the Rbbusta and varieties of the FiC-ùs being P apparently the most popular, although th& Almzzia, II also been largely planted. As a praoti Ration of the results of the working a eoffee an British Central Africa Mr. S. Israel, who first 1, ^riVed in the country in June; 1894, has been m- a f^eed to give a balance-sheet of his coffee plantation lt f° the end of last July. He purchased 500 acres of s- f^dj the capital cost of which he puts at £ 175, d "hough in 1894 he was able to buy the land for less lhan the seven shillings an acre it would now cost a u Rj^haser. The whole of his expenditure during the 7^rs, including the erection of buildings of a st jj*Uch more permanent character than are usually, n necessary, amounted to £ 2621 ,17B. 6d-i and 9* Rh« -receipts for the one year during W hih the it 'acres planted with coffee had borne a crop were in *"1460. A valnation of the eBtate showed that it was lfl *^orth £ 4500, though Mr. Israel says that he would V jj°t accept an offer of that artiount for it. For the t0 year Mr. Israel estimates that his returns will be 10 jj^OO, as against an expenditure .of £ 540; aad for r" when there will be 180 acres in bearieg, he 18 pticipatea a revetlue of £ 3000, against-on outlay of 10 ~55o, while the .capital value of the estate will; in have considerably increased, Yery few new in Walters have come into the country during the past '<? but .10 new plantations have been opened up. d absence of new planters is. attributed to the 68 ^^hs of the two Buchanan brothers, whose names bnfk ,s° widely known that the fact of, their death—. 3? in the same year—has given a worse impression )cl p to the unhealthinesB at the climate* of .British n» %tral Africa th^n it, actually deserves. is- amount of "Victorian- gold received at the be g^lbourne, miflt for the ten months of 1897 is to jj*.98?-ounces, against 638,621 ounces for the same re in 1896 and 584,987 ounces in 1895! b- ^cording -R) a correspondent of the British who recently visited Australia and New Zea- tW J 8 work, Margaret Ogilvy," was 't* •abet popular English book in the Cqlonies. '•» ^Tj^wpbuNnLAND having dismissed Sir William w» ii»v teway, Sir James Winter will in a few days take ne 4* premiership with a majority of eight in an To tbe eInbly of 30 members. It is not "asy to determine ry exact causes1 of the change in public feeling to- tI 4tds the, iikati who has long stood for 'Newfoundland the e^ef of1 thtf outside world. Possibly the idla of (> 8itaple>"flsherman that ft gold-laced Privy ha,c^l°r and beribboned GkCiM.G. could not. af g0|*e much', in common with his hai*9 lot1 had gj^^thing vfro do With it. At any rate, 'n of. William ceuld not keep tip the price (}j '^dfish and teep'^down the coBt; of Cana- "r*1 ffotir, and so" he had to go, and the ut party take his place. From them we n" ttot^ Hkely to hear much of the reciprocity of \v,a»g^ment With the United States to which Sir Whiteway hopped to get Mr. Chamberlain' he tatbnt. -it is more ttian probable that they will turn -r" f0n to Canada, in whose present prosperity New- 'and would gladly share. Confederation waa ot iT^aa -issue in the election, but it may come about 1 of future for all that. '•

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