Sir Anderson, » traveller for twentyyears in Soufca Africa, testifies : The English people have, nitherto been looked upon i aa friends and protectors (of the natives), and as one q2 them I felt proud of my country. Bat, since the Transvaal rebellion and it 3 retrocession, an Englishman ig ashamed to, travel in the coWntry, to he subject to the taunts of the chiefs and people at the boasted honour of I^'ngland. A rich harvest of p/obate duty waa reaped in. Great Britain laafc year from the estates ox widows. ' Mrs Heywood, of Liverpool, loft .£650,000 ; Mr 3 Morrison, of Basildon, Berks, .£617,000; Mra Gibbs, Tyntesfield, Somerset, .£483,683; Mrs Beaumont, of Sheffield,,.£ll6,ooo ; Mrs Bigg, of Edgwarc, .£112,000 ; and Mrs Fraser and Mra Webber, both /of London, and .£132,000 respectively. • i
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 6187, 15 March 1888, Page 4
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