Box 606761878
Container
Contains 51 Results:
Ngami Trek, Northern Rhodesia (Zambia), and Rhodesian (Zambian/Zimbabwean) Gold Reefs, 1897-1902
File
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 228, C17-C19
Letter from Dominus (Reverend) Adrian Hofmeyr about arrangements for the Ngami Trek, and about his talks with Jameson and the Governor, 15 Jul 1897
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 228, C17, item 1
With a reference to Bechuanaland (Botswana).
Extents: 1 item
Dates:
15 Jul 1897
Letter from Earl Grey giving the substance of talks with Milner about arrangements for the trek and for the transference and settlement of the six-mile strip surrounding the Bechuanaland (Botswana) railway, 28 Jul 1897
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 228, C17, item 2
He conveys Milner's advice to negotiate with the Colonial Office and leave Chamberlain alone for the present; and recommends that Lawley succeed him as Administrator of Rhodesia (Zambia and Zimbabwe) with Milton as Chief Secretary.
Extents: 1 item
Dates:
28 Jul 1897
Letter from Hofmeyr about the condition of the trekkers [waiting since 1894] at Maritsani and of others waiting to join the trek to Chanzis (sic), 24 Aug 1897
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 228, C17, item 3
He suggests providing clothing, provisions, wagons, and teams of oxen to compensate for rinderpest losses, and recommends that Julius Weil be given a trading monopoly. He has promised the trekkers that if the Imperial Government does not hand over the territory, Rhodes will provide alternative land.
Extents: 1 item
Dates:
24 Aug 1897
Letter from I. Bosman, Jagersfontein Road, requesting a loan of £300 and reminding Rhodes of his past support, 7 Oct 1897
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 228, C17, item 4
Telegram from Charter (the British South Africa Company), Cape Town, conveying the text of a cable from S/S Col. stating that the granting of occupation titles to the Ghanzi (sic) trekkers and the appointment of an Administrator by the Imperial Government would not prejudice Charter's claims to the territory in the future, 17 Oct 1897
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 228, C17, item 5
Letter from Bosman expressing concern that Rhodes is ill and requesting, in strong terms, compensation for losses incurred in his service in Ngamiland, 3 Nov 1897
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 228, C17, item 6
Telegram from Charter (the British South Africa Company), Cape Town, conveying the text of a cable from Grey expressing agreement with Rhodes, 3 Nov 1897
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 228, C17, item 7
Telegram from Charter (the British South Africa Company), Cape Town, conveying Hofmeyr's advice that the trekkers should start in Mar and that salted oxen and funds should be provided, 17 Dec 1897
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 228, C17, item 8
Letter from Bosman threatening to speak out against monopolists if Rhodes does not agree to a meeting, when he will prove the injustice of charges made against him, 13 Feb 1898
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 228, C17, item 9
With a related note from Hofmeyr stating that Bosman was promised land at Rietfontein, which [now] falls outside the settlement area, and asking Rhodes to give him a hearing.
Extents: 1 item
Dates:
13 Feb 1898
Letter from Gordon Crouch, Bulawayo, giving particulars of a route from Palapye to Lake Ngami travelled by him as a carrier for the British West Charterland Company, 14 Mar 1898
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 228, C17, item 10
Letters (in Dutch and English) from Bosman, now in Paarl, about his claims, which he has put in the hands of his attorneys but wishes to settle on a friendly basis; with a related exchange of notes between Stevens and Jourdan, 24 Jan-21 Feb 1901
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 228, C17, item 11
Extents: 1 item
Dates:
24 Jan-21 Feb 1901
Letter from Hofmeyr, in Madeira [after a lecture tour in England], explaining his difficulties over trek accounts following the war and his arrest; promising to meet his liabilities; and expressing gratitude and loyalty, 29 Jan 1902
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 228, C17, item 12
Letter from Bosman claiming justice and urging Rhodes not to believe what Hofmeyr, D.C. de Waal, and Dominus (Reverend) [S.J.] du Toit say about him, 18 Feb 1902
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 228, C17, item 13
Letter from Alfred Sharpe, the Residency, Zomba, British Central Africa (Malawi), about the difficulty of supplying labour for the Umtali (Mutare) railway as supplies for coffee plantations in the Shiré Highlands and South Nyasa are short, 23 Nov 1897
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 228, C18, item 1
He hopes to send labour from the Lower Shiré but warns of seasonal fluctuations.
Extents: 1 item
Dates:
23 Nov 1897
Letters from Capt. H.L. Daly, British South Africa Company, Blantyre, [to the Administrator, Salisbury (Harare)] suggesting amendments in existing ivory duties to prevent trade being diverted through German territory, and enclosing a related letter from Alex Runciman, African Lakes Company (ALC) (6 Oct), 12-18 Nov 1897
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 228, C18, item 2
He requests instructions about British South Africa Company police horses, some of which have been requisitioned from the African Transcontinental Telegraph (ATT), and about equipment. (Annotated [by P. Inskipp, Under-Secretary to the Administrator].)
Extents: 1 item
Dates:
12-18 Nov 1897
Letter from Robert Coryndon, Kazimqula, Zambesi River, 21 Jul 1898
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 228, C18, item 3
About:
his success in establishing relations with Lewanika
the latter's territorial claims in relation to the concession just granted, to the Company's mineral interests, and to infringements by the Portuguese
his own future plans
buck for Groote Schuur.
Extents: 1 item
Dates:
21 Jul 1898