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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVI, Issue XV, 11 April 1896, Page 416

The Auckland Chrysanthemum Society will hold their usual show on April 22nd, and entries can be made up till the 9th. The show promises to be a very good one, and it is to be hoped there will be many competitors.

Few people are aware of the fact that the site of Johannesburg and a large tract of the surrounding land was once bought for /350. But such was the case, and the purchaser now lies a confirmed invalid in the workhouse infirmary at Guildford. He went to South Africa, where he fought against the Zulus and the Boers. Before the Transvaal was made over to the Boers he purchased for Z'3so some 15,000 acres of land near the source of the Crocodile, better known as the Limpopo, where he made up his mind ultimately to settle. But war broke out, and he took up arms against the Boers and formed one of the party who held Pretoria. In 1880, when the Republic was declared, he refused to accept service under President Kruger, the result being that his land now estimated to be worth many millions sterling, was forfeited.

The physician was surprised to find the head of the household at the door with a shotgun. ‘Why, what’s the matter ?’ stammered the doctor. ‘ That there medicine you gave my wife she says is makin’ her feel like a new woman. And I want you to understand that no new woman business goes in this house. First thing I know she’ll be out makin’ speeches.’