THE BOERS AT ST. HELENA,

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 23 January 1901, Page 3

THE BOERS AT ST. HELENA,

■ The Capetown correspondent of thijd % Manchester “ Guardian ” writing or October 27, says;— 11 Tire lives of the Ro-p y publican prisoners of war arc passing muchig s less gloomily than at first- There are now Y B) few complaints as to unsatisfactory sank; ■ft tation or insufficient food. Many of themy $ are learning English. A letter just redy, jtfccivcd from St Helena gives an in Interesting picture of their life their. ThejK Mlcttcr. which is from an English speak-)’-||ing Boor, says “ The prisoners arej,)? pin fairly good spirits, and in exccllenlg; a)|. : hcalth. The military officials arc school lias been started in the camp.|| sSThe colonel kindly gave a marquee (ojY vjscrvc as a schoolroom. A second schoolTj ijhowever, is badly needed, and to-day ap RDutch clergyman and twenty-five of the® sot out to cut down trees ami-? g |«obtain poles to build this second . gJThey walked six miles through the rain,lf r sand only got a few poles, and in a fewp gldilys will have to search in another dircc-K? ; ||(ion. A Christian Endeavor Hall, 19fi|| ’ r<jby 13ft, has been built; and a nice litthp ‘Klibrary has been erected, Tlierc is n|» studio, a barber’s shop, anda cafe, where coffee, cake and pancakes|| llarc to bo had. The last-named delicacy iM f illsold ac a penny ; 1,200 were sdld the others 1 morning. There is a carpenter’s^ ’ ||shop, whore all sorts of curios ars made,y ' |land a cart-building shop. One of theft Yjlßoers here, though he had not learnt theK ’ fetrade, has made a lovely little Cape buckfe ||vvagon, which one of the officers boughip ' ;fffor £7 10s. Tho Boers arc finding that® 'pthey can do things they never dreamt of.’j.-. this it will bo seen that tho stay oi|| lithe Boer prisoners at St. Helena has® p many compensations, and will make the® K burghers more capable and solf-rcliantp p than they would otherwise have been.

K j|| Tho Government has received the flowing cable from the Agent-General:—i®j ||death.’' I Larrikinism is rampant in several sub- p lijurbs of Melbourne, and pushes are daily certain localities. It is al gg p|!cged that a man named Buckland, who k| Ijjwas said to have broken his leg by a fall j T .,j |]from a high wall, was really tho victim® |i)f a push outrage. Ho was set upon byg ; members of a gang, knocked ffiwith a batten, and whilst in that condi-S>|. ■lj-ion his leg was so badly broken in four Nc that the bone protruded. Buck-pi who was interviewed at tho that he was unconscious and-H Mremcmbcrcd nothing. He was told aftcr-|||-Swards that ho had fallen from a wall, but|.«c iillid not remember. He added that if ho Sjwcrc told he had nol fallen he would not pi 3sdeny it. He says that the assult was ||j - by people, who, however, arcps a |sso absolutely under the reign of Ifchat they dare not give information. |£| ® Residents in push-ridden districts arc cry-||| f Ming out for additional police faynd stern repressive measures.