The Boers at St. Helena.
The last craze among the Boer prisoners at St. Helena is hut-building, and, considering how difficult it is to get material of any sort there, the shanties they manage to erect are wonderful. Necessity still remains the mother of invention, for who would have thought of aloe poles and empty biscuit tins for a house? Yet from these poles and biscuit tins a colony of houses and huts has gradually sprung up. The Boer seems much to prefer the hut with no windows, a dusty floor and no ventilation, Jo the tent, which, no doubt, is too civilised to please him. Some of these huts even affect a style of their own, such as a Swiss cottage.
A quarrel recently occurred between two maiden ladies. Said the younger one, rather maliciously: ‘ I wonder if I shall lose my looks, too, when I get your age !’ The Elder One: ‘You will be lucky if you do.' Recent studies of the ocean bottom near the coast-line of continents have shown that rivers of considerable size sometimes enter the sea beneath the surface.
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Golden Bay Argus, Volume VII, Issue 66, 5 September 1901, Page 3
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