The great native and labour problem has been troubling South Africa with more or less insistence since the days Of native slave under the Boer. The deprivation of the mei-ema service Of the nigger brought trouble Very early to the British Administration, and in fact may be deemed the beginning of that bad feeling between the two races which has continued since. Characteristically, the first Sign of the fatal breach between Briton and Boer was the direct result Of missionary interference in native treat ment; we say characteristically without re?ection on the present missionary policy, but in the sense that the London Missionary Society of that period exercised the functions of the Aborigines' Protection Society Of today. As recorded by the historian Mr. Theal, in his Progress of South ca in the Century,' the first.