NEWS FROM PRETORIA.

Lake County Press, Issue 905, 5 April 1900, Page 3

NEWS FROM PRETORIA.

The Capetown correspondent of -M •!- bourne Age writes; —A member of the Transvaal Seer' t Serviie has just arrived from Pretoria, and gives some interestin'; information of the condition of things p» evading there and in Johannesburg. He left Pretoria on 14th January. He states that there are 22 hospitals for the wounded in Johannesburg and 17 in Pretoria, The market at Pretoria is fairly well supplied with vegetables. The goods in the stores are being largely commandeered, and the officials are now taking money. They walk into a store, and it they find £4O or £SO take away £3O. If a person draws £SO from the Bank ohe Bank officials demand and take half of it. No permit is required for residents in Pretoria, but no one is allowed in Johannesburg without a pass. In the latter place, on the 10th ultimo, there was a big fire, Messrs Beckett’s premises being entirely destroyed. The cartridge factory at Modderfontein has been blown up, and 70 people killed. The prisoners in Pretoria are badly in want of clothes, tobacco and reading matter. Looting is general, and pianos taken from deserted houses are being sold at ridiculous prices at Pretoria. Several were sold on the market for 17s fid each, and one man secured one for 15s,