...seemed more safe. It was announced in the Queen's Speech, at the opening of the session of 1881, that "the duty of taking military measures with a view to the prompt vindication of Her authority had of necessity set aside, for the time, any plan for securing to the European settlers...

...enough. What followed was far worse. In the Queen's Speech (January, 1881) was the following sentence : " A rising in the Transvaal has recently imposed upon...authority, and has of necessity set aside for the time being any plans for securing to the European settlers that full control over their own local affairs,...

...Her Majesty's Speech, delivered in Parliament on the 6th January 1881, contains the following words: "A rising in the Transvaal has recently imposed upon me the duty of vindicating my authority." These extracts are rather curious reading in face of the policy adopted...

...vindication of the Queen's authority.— The Queen's Speech on the opening of Parliament says:— " A rising in the Transvaal has recently imposed upon...vindication of my authority, and has of necessity, for the time, set aside any plan for securing to the European settlers that full control over their...

...In the meanwhile Parliament had met at home,1 and a paragraph was inserted in the Queen's Speech : A rising in the Transvaal has recently imposed upon...authority, and has of necessity set aside for the time any plan for securing to the European settlers that full control over their own local affairs, without...

...summarised in the words of the Queen's Speech at the opening of Parliament on the 6th of January, 1881: A rising in the Transvaal has recently imposed upon...; and has of necessity set aside for the time any plan for securing to the European settlers that full control over their own local affairs, without...

...inopportune. It was scarcely more opportune after Laing's Nek. The Queen's Speech for 1881 declared that the duty of taking military measures with a view to the prompt vindication of the Queen's authority had of necessity set aside for the time any plan for securing to the European...

...commencement of the war. On January 6, 1881, the Queen's Speech contained the following statement : — ' A rising in the Transvaal has recently imposed upon...; and has of necessity set aside for the time any plan for securing to the European settlers that full control over their own local affairs, without...

...few hours. CHAPTER VI THE BOER WAR. 1881 T71XTRACT from the Queen's Speech of January, 1881 : " A -L^ rising in the Transvaal has recently imposed upon...a view to the prompt vindication of my authority." On reading the above I felt certain I should very soon receive my marching orders, and sure enough,...

...Africa to compel an early meeting of Parliament (Jan. 6th, 1881), and the Queen's Speech emphasized " the duty of taking military measures with a view to the prompt vindication of my authority ". Sir Frederick Roberts was sent out in command of a considerable force, but he arrived in South Africa...