A BOER WOMAN'S TRIBUTE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 9101, 20 March 1901, Page 1

A BOER WOMAN'S TRIBUTE.

The authorities had recently to compel 'a number of Boer families to leave their homes at Lindley, and to proceed under escort to Cape Town.- A Boer lady has sent an. account of 'this journey to the Gape Times of December 26, and we recommmend it to the attention of those persons who are m the habit of sniffing at the English officers' recognised good qualities. She was apparently surprised and unquestionably pleased with the kindness and consideration shown to herself and. her countrywomen. It was a matter of course to an English gentleman to women with courtesy, as even the critics' of their intelligence would generally admit; but here is a proof that this courtesy is having the best possible effect. I For this Boer lady testifies both her own emd.lier countrywomen's appreciation. She is moved by it to admit the injustice of,.eailing the English cruel for burning — it' is as a rule pnly partially burning — a few farms from which concealed Boers shot at unsuspecting Englishmen Who were treacherously invited to visit them. "We are ashamed of ourselves," they said? "we have -never received such attdnFion before. We only wish our husbands knew how well we are treated." It is a most satisfactory tribute.