MILLIONS MADE BY MULES.

Evening Post, Volume LX, Issue 108, 3 November 1900, Page 2 (Supplement)

MILLIONS MADE BY MULES.

Since Lord Roberts's arrival in South Africa he has had landlords who have provided him with various degrees of comfort or otherwise. But just now, according to M.A.P., his lot has fallen in pleasant places, so fai as his domestic arrangements are concerned. We are told that— "The splendid abode now occupied here by the Commacder-in-Chief belongs to a Colonial Irishman named Bourke, a millionaire who made most of his money by stage-coaches. J was passing the house tot-day with a mule conductor, who told me. that he and Bourke were scjoolboys together ; that Bourke left' school a dunce, and came north as a very young man with two mules and a cart, which were in after years to multiply so largely. The railway has, of course, cut him oat now; but, as a millionaire, he can afford to Bell his mules and take his ease, although comparatively a young man, being still on" the right side of fifty. ' The hoiise he has built •jn Sunnyside, end which is now the temporary home of Lord Roberts, is superbly furnished, and everything about the house and garden has an air of absolute luxury." Jn connexion with South Africa it is somewnat of a novelty to hear of millions made by mules,,