FROM KIMBERLEY.
Mr Gerad Allen writes fron? Kirabeiley as follows : — " Here I am m the Bank of Afrio\ The jouraey from Capetown up here took us from Friday 9 p.m. till Sunday 8.30 a.m., 648 miles. A dreary monotonous journey it i', nothing to a» e but driei up country, and then ycu come to a place where (he thermometer is ccnsidsrably over 100 m the shade, Ido not know how lam goiog to stun a it. We dress iv while clothes, some kind of calico, (a suit costs Vis), straw hit and ehoep, yet, aft<r walking to the B-tuk, 1 Bin) ply Bit and gasp. HO m the tun is a tr.fle. Thunderstorms are every day bffairs, and such thunderstorms ! The Russians might be firing off 10,000 suns at once on the town. Lsst Suuday it started with 96 deg. m the shade— hot sun, and bright clear 6ky -iv hilf-au-hour the tbunder was crashing over our heads, and then ifc rained. It came'dowu like a wall, the older residents thought it was a plenstnt little shower— it was the first for six months— and it cooled the air. Everything is hot here, even the things you touch on the table. I hope I shall be able to stand the climate. lam going to try to, as long as I cap, for of course I wns very lucky to get this billet. There are eight others m the Bank, three over me and five under me. Expenses are very high, but a week after my entering the Bank I was told that my screw, would be raised to -£175 per ye»r, If I can only efaud the climate all will ba well.
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Marlborough Express, Volume XXXII, Issue 29, 4 February 1897, Page 4
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