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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 118, 11 February 1908, Page 4

For; tho first time siheo the establishment of tho Circuit Court, at . Somerset East, Uapo Colony; the .judge, l{r. Justieo KotM;- rev ■ ceiitly addressed the.jury, composed of Dutch farmers, in their own Fa'ngriago, and tMis r; sated the timo occupied by an interpreter. For tho last , century and a half 'tho tendency of average English training has been to destroy' people's, eyefor colour, and to swell ■ 'them out'with a conceited thankfulness !that'.., ill this' particular.' they are not as other. nu»n are. Tho cult" of the' dismal" and tho, driib.,,. used to'be an ... English religion; but 110 one, a? . far'. as' \ve: know, preaches ..it now. though multitudes,' still (jractiso ; it.—''Building' News." , " , " * . )" : The - farmer, and his friends still flock .to tho annual but' they ' are of a'-vcry"; different stamp-;from" ~tho;,agriciilti,irist's,;,of." forty-years .ago, , It, would .bo., difficult "to. 'find tho.'Vepmair farmer .'in'"■puoltsKiii.''ffce?liog". . and top-boots,; ''. low-crowned, silk, hat; and .it would be still more' difticult to find tho old-fashioned typical working,, iarmor m cordurov btecchoa " .and elaborately worked smock, fheso "typos' have disappeared.—"Observer."