OPENINGS IN SOUTH AFRICA.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 185, 6 August 1900, Page 5

OPENINGS IN SOUTH AFRICA.

Writing to a friend in Auckland from fourteen miles north of. Pretoria, on June 12th, a regular now at the front makes some interesting statements: "You must wait," he says, "till the war is over before I can send you a long letter, and goodness knows when that will be. We had a hot time before entering Johannesburg. I shall try for the police, as the pay is good—lo/ per diem, but it requires interest to get the billet. However, your old chief, the general, has promised to do all he can. There is no business doing here at present; everything still unsettled, and prices high, so quotations will give no idea of ordinary values. If you decide on coming over do not leave before the end of September.. Meanwhile look up firms, butter, tinned meat, cheese, potatoes, onions, etc., and get all the agencies you can. A livery stable horsed from New Zealand would pay iv Johannesburg, but that is not your line. Board and lodging will cost you about 40/ or 45/ per week. This place (Pretoria) is very pretty; nice houses with large gardens, covered with beautiful roses, so the soil must be good in the valley. The Boers carry on their usual annoying tactics, firing at us and then running away. I suppose it is 'war,' but not the Englishman's idea of it."