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Bleek reflects on the death of the statesman, John Fairbairn, and that of his son-in-law, Frederick Watermeyer, several months prior. He laments the loss of men of "eminent usefulness" to the Cape Colony. Frederick Watermeyer was troubled by Fairbairn's sizeable debts and worked frantically to lessen them, as Fairbairn had been ill for some time before dying. To a lesser extent, he comments on the desire of those in the Eastern Province to relocate Parliament to Graham's Town, which members in the Western Province fiercely oppose. He associatively pivots from matters of death, political succession, and policy to the polarising Law of Inheritance debate seeking to appease the Germanophone West and Anglophone East.

Printed newsprint glued on paper

30/03/1865

Two cut out columns of newsprint text, positioned vertically parallel, pasted onto a plus-sized A4 unlined sheet with visible warping. No title was subsequently handwritten onto the mount/paper backing.