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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7539, 21 January 1896, Page 4

The journey from Port Elizabeth to Buluwayo, South Africo, is thus described :— "On Sunday, IHh August, wo started by train for Pretoria, the capital of the Transvaal, and after leaving by the mid-day train and travelling night and day, arrived in Pretoria 5.30 a.m. Tuesday. We stayed at the Transvaal Hotel. A tremendous expense all this journey has been ; in fact, after paying for our luggage, which, by the way, has not yet arrived, as it had 500 miles to come by bullook waggon, and paying for train fares, hotel expenses, and coach fares, together with first month's expenses, runs pretty near £250. On Wednesday at four o'clock we got up and had some coffee, and at 5 a.m. we started by coach, twelve passengers inside and about six or seven out, logether with ail personal luggage, each passengers being allowed only 301 b and excess of that Is 9d per lb. We had a great deal of excess to piy for, and so you will imagine in what v style wo have been obliged to get on. Well, after being under way for about three hours one of the bind wheels got stuck in the mud, and the coach very nearly upset— all the men gob out and putmed the 1 sunken wheel and the ten or twelve mules pulled the huge conveyance out — but it was a narrow squeak of going over. We travelled till 8 p.m. and then had some dinner and lay down till 2 a.m., when we ail got on board again and away we went, arriving at Pietersburg (North Transvaal) at 1 p.m. on Thursday. Had dinner and rested till 2 a.m. on the following day, when eleven of us had to get into a smaller coach whK n was only meant to carry nine passen r re, ce r S and with the exception of stopping to chance mules and get refreshments now £>. D jj t i le g with perhaps a couple of hours' sleep we travelled night and day till Monday evening at seven o'clock, when wo arrived here in Buluwayo. The dust was something cruel aud so bad that for two days previously I completely lost my voice, and for two weeks after arrival we were ao bad with it that you would have thought we nil had consumption." According to the St. Petersburg gossips the Emperor and Empress of Russia ar delighted that their first child is a girl. j? is said that, on being congratulated * ' of the Court Chamberlains, the '1' jy I", 6 " The Tsaritza and I are rejoice- 3 ' - aar , Sald> daughter. The child is ours <■ / to hav f a had we had a son, he wou' . ". nd ours only ; to Russia." A liave belonged