PRESIDENT KRUGER AND THE SISTERS OF NAZARETH.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2, 11 January 1900, Page 3

PRESIDENT KRUGER AND THE SISTERS OF NAZARETH.

< The Rev. Mother- General of the Sisters of Nazareth, Hammersmith, England, wrote to President Kruger appealing for his protection for the Sisters at Johannesburg, and it appears (says the London Tablet) the letter went home to his heart. The President took steps at once to assure the Sisters of their safety. Moreover, President Kruger instructed the Secretary of State, Dr. Reitz, to write a letter of reassurance to the Mother-General. Nor was he a man of words merely. Every Boer man is wanted for the Boer War. But a party of men was specially told off for the protection of Nazareth House, Johannesburg, from — ' Outlanders.' Not all Outlanders are millionaires j not all are able to be of the company, described lately in a daily paper, as filling the expensive hotels in Capetown and mingling maudlin tears with their champagne. Some fallen angels of Outlanders, it seems, there are, who stayed in Johannesburg because they had no money to carry them thence, and, also, perhaps, because, under the circumstances of a town emptied of its fighting folk, something might turn up for the advantage of a claes of ne'er-do-wells that needed daily and nightly control. Against all euch possible intruders strict watch is kept by these guardian Boers, of whom the English and Irish Sisters they defend speak in tones of kindness that may, through this paragraph, find echoes here that will not be drowned by the clamour of the streets.