...special train to-day." And again, a few hours later, with a final bowing to the inevitable : — " Goold Adams arrives Mafeking Monday, and Heany, I...friends are now dead against it, and say public will not sui> scribe one penny towards 1t, even_vvith,you^as a director. Ichabcd ! " It may be well to remind...

...to this was : ' It is all right if you will only wait. Captain Maurice Heany comes to you from Col. FW Rhodes by special train to-day.' And, again, two...and say public will not subscribe one penny towards even with you as a director — Ichabod.' Still on the same day two further telegrams to Dr. Jameson...

...and Heany, I think, arrives to-night ; after seeing him, you and we must judge regarding notation, but all our foreign friends are now dead against it...two further telegrams to Dr. Jameson were sent from Capetown, almost together, of a strongly discouraging tenor. One of them concludes by saying ' we cannot...

...if you will only wait,' and further, ' After seeing him ' (Heany, the messenger from Johannesburg), 'you and we must judge regarding flotation, but all...not subscribe one penny towards it, even with you as director. Ichabod.' Mr. C. Leonard having arrived on that day (Saturday, 28th December), at Cape Town,...

...quite plain to Jameson that he must not move : " All our foreign friends are dead against flotation and say public will not subscribe one penny towards it even with you as director. . . . We cannot have fiasco." But Jameson was tired of delays and of all the excuses of Johannesburg...

...after seeing Hamilton and Leonard, Harris sent this despairing message : — ' Goold-Adams arriving Mafeking Monday, and Heany, I think, arrives to-night...not subscribe one penny towards it even with you as Director. Ichabod.' And still again (on the evening of the 28th) : — ' You are quite right with regard...

...after seeing Hamilton and Leonard, Harris sent this despairing message : — ' Goold-Adams arriving Mafeking Monday, and Heany, I think, arrives to-night...after seeing him, you and we must judge regarding notation ; but all our foreign friends are now dead against it, and say public will not subscribe one...

...Unternehmen sei abgeblasen. Das Telegramm, verschlüsselt, aber nicht allzu schwer zu verstehen, lautete: „Public will not subscribe one penny towards it even with you as director."114 Es wurde am Samstag, dem 28. Dezember 1895, aufgegeben. Das nun folgende Wochenende verlief...