IsiXhosa Intellectual Traditions (IsiXIT) Digital Archive

[FROM OUR MOSUTO CORRESPONDENT.] Morija, Nov. 26, 1885. We were sadly disappointed on learning that His Excellency the High Commissioner had decided upon not visiting Basutoland. It gave us great pleasure to hear that he was coming. Still we have the drop of consolation in the fact that he has met with Colonel Clarke in Bloemfontein, and we trust their meetings will not be without beneficial results. IMVO Zabantsundu is, we must acknowledge, doing the native races much good in keeping them well informed about the people who are anxious to encompass the destruction of the black people of this land. We allude especially to the increased facilities accorded the sale of ardent spirits which have been turned over the native people of Fingoland, Tembuland and East Griqualand. The men who have done this are our greatest enemies. The Governor should hurl them into the sea (as the scriptures say). Bet a mill-stone be hung about their necks and be cast into the deep. Really we have no words with which to thank the Rev. J. D. Don for his anxious labours in the cause of the Queen's Jus- tice and the Law of God (which says 'Thou shalt not kill') in connection with the shooting of innocent people. If Passes are to lead to such dreadful losses of life, then they should be done away with.