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English: Cartoon in the Port Elizabeth Observer newspaper 1877 attacking the Cape Town based government of Molteno for its reluctance to embark on imperial expansion. John X Merriman the Commissioner for Public Works is shown reluctantly obeying the Governor Bartle Frere's orders to expand the frontier into the Xhosa Kingdom of Kreli. Commandant Griffiths holds the tools of Police and Volunteers but asks for military aid which Merriman declines. Artist is CJ Barber.
THE OBSERVER, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1877.
MERELY SHIFTING THE BOUNDARY.
J. X. M. – THE GUV'NOR SAYS THE BOUNDARY IS TO BE SHIFTED.
COMMANDANT GRIFFITHS. – I SHALL WANT MILITARY AID.
J. X. M. – OH! WE NEVER EMPLOY SOLDIERS UPON PUBLIC WORKS.
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Source The Observer of South African Affairs. Port Elizabeth. RSA
Author CJ Barber. The Observer. Cape Colony. 1877.

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