THE TRANSVAAL.

Press, Volume LIII, Issue 9338, 12 February 1896, Page 3

THE TRANSVAAL.

LETTER FROM AN EX-OHR-ST-, CHURCH RI2SIDENI*. We have been favoured with tlte following extracts from a letter teceived by a gentleman in this city from. an ex-Christohuroh resident, who some time since left to try his fortune in Johannesburg:— A

Johannesburg, January 2.. < Dear ——,—We soon got work after'arrival here. gob 25s per day, and I gob £1. Bricklayers and carpenters cannot go short of work, and you are not hurried—in fact, treated very v»ell. —— has been offered 30* to take charge of the bricklayers on a building, and another carpenter from Timaru and I were pressed to a_-.pt 25a. _ . Don't advise anyone to come over, because if the wages arc high so is living... BoarcT is £2 5s per week; everythingpropottionately dear. . ..... Dr. Jameson's column and their future ia watched within teres., - bnt accounts -are so very- different, and everything is a simmer vof excitement and unrest. ..... To-night there are meetings everywhere, and Dullness ins terrible muddle. "Uitlanders" insulted, terror-stricken. women and children, excited men, and a moat unhappy position of affairs. . Over 5000 Lee-Metforos arrived here today, and are not guarded in the Government offices. The Australasians have banded with the New Zealanders, < and talk of forming', a . separate corps. - As I write I hear an angry altercation below, and we- do not know what turn things will take.' .." •'.* .' "."*'. Tell —-— not to come over yet- There are three Christchurch fellows working on tbe same building as I and a bricklayer labourer, who get 15s per day. Aa a city Johannesburg is a funny one ; nothing like Christ* church, but certainly finer in many ways.. Commissioner street knocks anything oat ia Chrietouuroh, and life is very exciting. ' Kaffirs are treated worse than dogs, the, Eoglisher ie bated and the Dutch aot in a very hostile manner. —— who came over with us from Lyttelton, has got a capital Job at Viljoen'a Drift." : .... Eight *ob in Christchurch is better then 28a here, so don't come unless yon have £60 or ;£6O . and prepared to put np with a lot. " Though _ the. place ie novel, and I firmly believe will be a moat wonderful place, yet, bang on for a bib and wait till the Dutch are made to . buckle down. ... . . .The doings in the.'Rand are very fonny, and' the laws' here moatnnjustandannoylugto English residents. Before long there must be a great alteration. .... Tell —— to be contented in old Christchurch, and wait till I have better news.—Yours, &0,, H.W.8.,