of the value of 75l., or receipt of a salary of 50%. Electors, to be registered, must be able to sign their names and state in writing their occupations and addresses. The number of registered electors in 1904 was 135,177, under the registration provisions of Act No. 9 of 1892, which provides, inter alia, for elections by ballot after July 1, 1894. All members of Parliament are entitled to one guinea a day for their services, and those residing more than 15 miles from Cape Town to an additional 15s. a day for a period not exceeding 90 days.

High Commissioner for British South Africa. Viscount Milner, G.C.B., G.C.M.G.

Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Cape Colony.-Hon. Sir Walter F. Hely-Hutchinson, G.C.M.G.

The administration is carried on, under the Governor, by a Ministry constituted as follows:

Premier.-Hon. L. S. Jameson, C. B., M.L.A.

Colonial Secretary.-Hon. Colonel C. P. Crewe, C. B., M.L.A.
Treasurer.-Hon. E. H. Walton, M. L.A.

Attorney-General.-Hon. Victor Sampson, K. C., M.L.A.
Commissioner of Public Works.-Hon. Dr. T. W. Smartt, M.L.A.
Secretary for Agriculture.-Hon. A. J. Fuller, M.L.A.

Minister without portfolio.—Hon. Sir L. L. Mitchell, Kt., M.L.A.

Under the "Reserved Schedule Act, 1896," the annual salaries of the Colonial Secretary, the Treasurer, the Attorney-General, the Commissioner for Public Works, and the Secretary for Agriculture are fixed at 1,5007. each; and the Prime Minister, if holding any one of these Ministerial Offices, has an additional allowance of 2507. a year.

Agent-General of Cape Colony in Great Britain.—Sir T. E. Fuller, K. C.M.G.
Secretary.-T. S. Nightingale.

Superintendent of Stores and Shipping Branch.-E. G. Rendell.
Emigration Agent.-H. H. Erskine.

The Colony is divided into 77 divisions, and its dependencies into 30 districts. In each division there is a Civil Commissioner, who is also generally Resident Magistrate. There is for each of the divisions, except 3, a Council of at least 6 members (14 in the Cape Division) elected triennially by the registered Parliamentary voters. These Councils look after roads, boundaries, and beacons; return 3 members to the Licensing Court, and perform other local duties. There are 80 magisterial districts and 77 fiscal divisions in the Colony proper. There are 112 Municipalities, each governed by a Mayor or Chairman and Councillors, a certain number of whom are elected annually by the ratepayers. There are also 80 Village Management Boards.

Area and Population.

The Cape Colony was originally founded by the Dutch, under Van Riebeek, about the year 1652. When it was taken by the English, in 1796, the colony had extended east to the Great Fish

River. I 1805, at the peace of Amiens, it was given, up to the Netherlands, but was again occupied by British troons in 1806. In August, 1814, this colony and the Netherlands colonies in. South America were formally ceded to Grea: Britain, the sun, of £,000,000. Being paid by the British. to the Netherlands Govern. ment. Since that time the boundary has been gradually enlarged by the annexation of adjoining districts.

At the census of 1875 the colony, as then constituted, had an area of 191,416 square miles and a population of 720.984 236,783 Europeans). According to the report of the census of April 5, 1891, the population on the same area is 936,485 (336,938 Europeans), showing an increase of $2.66 per cent. during the 16 years, or an annual increase of 2:04 per cent, of the whole population, and an increase in the European popula tion of 42:30 per cent. in the 16 years, or an annual increase of 2-64 per cent. The returns of the census taken on April 17, 1904, give the area of the whole colony as 276,995 square miles and the total population as 2,405,552. The number of aeres per head is 73-7. The Europeans or whites number 580,380, or onefourth of the population. Of this number the proportion of females to every 100 males is 82.16.

The following table gives the area and population of the colony proper and native Territories according to the preliminary census returns of

Pondoland was annexed to Cape Colony September 25, 1894, and British Bechuanaland in November, 1895.

In 1891 of the white population of Cape Colony, 27,607 were born in England, 6,646 in Scotland, and 4,184 in Ireland, while 6,540 were German. Of the coloured population, 13,907 are Malays, and 247,806 a misture of various races; the rest are Hottentots, Fingoes, Kaflirs, and Bechmanns. Of the white population in 1904, 318,595 were males and 261,785 females; of the coloured, 888,136 were males and 927,086 females.

The chief towns with their population in 1904 (provisional figures) were :The capital, Cape Town, 77,183; Cape Division, which includes Cape Town and suburbs, 212, 257; Kimberley, 34,260; Port Elizabeth, 32, 921; Graham's Town, 13,877; Beaconsfield, 9,374; Paarl, 11,283; King William's Town, 9,500; East London, 24,054; Graaff-Reinet, 10,072; Worcester, 8,087; Uitenhage, 12,199; Cradock, 7,673.

Of the European population in 1891, 14,253 were of professional occupation, 77,118 domestic, 17,922 commercial, 74,095 agricultural, 31,177 industrial, 155,333 were dependants, and 7,089 indefinite or unspecified. Of the coloured population the great majority are engaged in agricultural or domestic employ

ments.

The marriages, births and deaths registered in the whole colony (exclusive of war and concentration camp area, 1900-02) in five years were :—

The European birth-rate is about 34 44 per thousand and death-rate 15.73. Government immigration was stopped in 1886. The number of adult arrivals and departures by sea was in 1898, 28,513 and 20,638 respectively; in 1899, 26,510 and 28,381; in 1900, 29,848 and 21,163; in 1901, 30,852 and 20,961; in 1902, 49,060 and 22,151; in 1903, 61,870 and 29,615.

Religion and Instruction.

According to the census of 1891, there were in the Colony 732,047 Protestants comprising 306,320 of the Dutch Reformed Church, 139,058 of the Church of England, 37,102 Presbyterians, 69,692 Independents, 106, 132 Wesleyans and 5,390 other Methodists, 20, 278 Lutherans, 16,297 Moravians, 14,271 Rhenish Mission, 6,954 Baptists. The Catholics numbered 17,275; Mohammedans 15,099; Jews 3,009. The number described as of no religion' was 753,824, of whom 528,338 were Kafirs and Bechuanas, 165,389 Fingos, 22,545 Hottentot, and 36,998 of mixed race. There were in all 1,882 places of worship. There is no State Church, but a certain sum is appropriated annually for 'religious worship' (5,3557. in 1901-02) to the Dutch Reformed, Episcopalian, Presbyterian, and Roman Catholic churches; in 1875 an Act was passed for the gradual withdrawal of this grant.

Education is not compulsory. Of the European population in 1891, 28.82 per cent. of the males and 28.02 per cent. of the females could neither read nor write. In 1891, according to the census results, there were in the colony 99,280 European children between the ages of 5 and 14. Of these 22,080 were taught in the government-aided schools, 17,697 in private schools, and 20,223 at home or in Sunday schools only. Between the same ages there were 316,152 native or non-European children of whom 34,133 were taught in governmentaided schools, 4,561 in private schools, and 5,021 at home or in Sunday schools only. In the 2,569 aided schools on June 30, 1903, the enrolment was 149,111, with a daily attendance averaging 120,352.

Cape Colony has a University, incorporated 1873, and granted a royal sharted in 1997) It's a enning body, empowered to grant degrees, bat with no attached teaching istimmers. There are 7 bleges aided by Goverment grus, a vi staf of proiessors and lechons in the departments of classics, mathematics, and physical sciences. Number of students in 1908–1903, 548.

Government expenditure in eineation fre 1908–1903, 314.3666. 236. 27. There were 141 poble Foracies in the colony in 1914, with an aggregate of 487,576 volumes. There are about 100 newspapers and periodicals pellished in the colony.

Justice and Crime.

The highest Court of Jubature in the colony is the Supreme Court. which consists of a Chief Justice and eight prisme jis. De pipes of the Supreme Court hall sessions in Cape Town, and Chit Courts in the Western Districts; the judges assigned to the Easter Districts Court hold sessions in Grahamstown, and Chemis Courts in the Eastem and Northem Districts and the Transkaian Tertturies; and the jn ires assigned to the High Courts hold sessions at Kimberley and Norden Daira The Supreme Court has been constituted a Court of Appel Vores in mining uses may le pail. There are numeros seats of magistracy and further perficial tours held by magistrates 1 g A ses xers if special justices of the peace. Under certain sundimits appeal may be made to the King in Confil. The Boman-Dutch av fims the great balk of the law of the colony, modified by colonial statute law.

In 1903 there were Convited before the special J. P. Courts, 790 prisoners: before Magistrates Courts. 76,995 : before the Superior Courts, 828. The prisoners in mici. December 31, 1903, were 2,404 ales and 388 females. On December 31, 1901, the Cape Padre Fame numbered 2,871, the Ordinary Police Force, 1,564; and the Gaci stablishment, 73

Pauperism.

In the various charitable institutions in the colony at the end there were 4,428 inmates. In 1903, 24 persons received in door relief the Colony proper, and an average of 1.564 monthly received caziber reli The number of ara-poying in-patients of hospitals and asylums wis in 1900.

Finance.

The income and expenditure of the solong, the former including hans, the latter including expenditure under Art of Parliament, were as follows during each of the last Ave years en ting June 30

For 1903-04 the revenue (unaudited) amounted to 9,915,1947., and the expenditure to 10,833,2127. For 1904-05 the revenue is estimated at 9,717,1007., and the expenditure at 10,519,3007.

The colony had a public debt of 36,469,2497. on January 1, 1904, including 4,627,8787. raised for corporate bodies, harbour boards, but guaranteed in the general revenue. Nearly the whole of the loans have been spent in public works, nearly twenty-five millions sterling on railways alone. The total value of assessed property in the colony, excluding the Transkeian Territories,' in 1903 was returned at 72,735,9881., excluding Government property.

The total revenue of the Divisional Councils in 1903 was 210,3551., and expenditure, 236,5247. The total Municipal revenue in 1903 was 2,097,2407., and expenditure, 2,028,0551. The total debt of the Divisional Councils, December 31, 1903, was 46,1377., and of the Municipalities 3,146,9657.

Defence.

The whole of the Cape Peninsula, in which is the great naval station of Simon's Bay, is fortified against foreign attack by a series of forts and batteries. Here is maintained a contingent of the imperial army, the imperial military expenditure in 1898 amounting to 306,3087., and the Naval to about 200,000Z.

For the defence of the colony a military force is maintained-the Cape Mounted Riflemen, 788 officers and men. By a law passed in 1878, every able-bodied man in the colony between 18 and 50 is subject to military service beyond as well as within the colonial limits. There is besides a body of 7,643 volunteers. Expenditure in 1903-1904 on colonial defence, 262,500l. The Cape Police, which consists of 82 officers and 1,613 men, is available for defence purposes in case of emergency. On the Cape and West African station, a squadron of 16 of his Majesty's ships is maintained.

Production and Industry.

In 1902, 1,380 titles were issued, and the net area alienated 853,587 acres of land. Up to Dec. 31, 1903, the total area disposed of was 130,098,858 acres, the quantity undisposed of being 47,277,802 acres. There are over 537 square miles under forest.

Regarding the area under cultivation there are no recent statistics. In 1875 the total was 580,000 acres of which 18,000 acres were under vines.

In the year ending May 31, 1899, the chief agricultural produce of the Colony and native territories was:-wheat, 2,220,847 bushels; oats, 1,810,611 bushels; barley, 830,730 bushels; mealies, 2,857,809 bushels; Kafir corn, 2,000,000 bushels; rye, 304,491 bushels; oat-hay, 41,547,044 bundles of about 5 lbs. There were 83,000,000 vine-stocks, yielding 4,826,432 gallons of wine, 1,107,344 gallons of brandy. There were also fruit trees (peach, apricot, apple, pear, plum, fig, orange, lemon, and naartje)