LIVING IN SOUTH AFRICA.
Heavy Charts.
Tbe cost of living in South Africa is ■clearly indicated by the correspondent of a Melbourne paper. He lives at what is •considered a good second-class hotel, and his monthly bill comes to between £28 and JE3O, yet the hotel is cheerless and lacks ordinary comforts. " Tortured
Jby mosquitoes at night, you find it necessary when drawing on your boots • each morning to invert and shake them so as to rid them of cockroaches that have crept in during the night, and at
/meals one gets som9 little diversion out w)f flicking these loathsome creatures off 9&e table with your serviette. At a fair • estimate two out of every four boiled
•eggs ordered are just fit to eat, but .almost daily, having opened one egg, you immediately open the window."
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7726, 28 March 1904, Page 7
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