The San Francisco call., 1896-06-09

has their money and titles to most of the
good mines back again in his safe, besides
holding large blocks of stock in theothers
The head of the assizing department
states in his report to the Government
that there is no place in the world where
the aduiteration of liquor is practiced TO
such an extent as in johannesburg.
Produce and forage have reached ruin
GUS prices in Johannesburg The locusts
have destroyed everything green, and this
country will have to depend on Australia
Tor hay and other produce.
FOR long time people here have been
at loss to understand why the London
Times was always able to get the doings
OF the Reformers during the troublous
times hours before we did. Now the Cat
IS out OF the bag, in the fact that Lionel
Philips brother was and is the Times
correspondent in this city.
A movement is on foot among the mer-
chants of Cape Town to hold an inter-
national exhibition. The Government of
Cape Colony is being interested in the
matter.
The rinderrest is spreading with fear
ful rapidity. In many districts there is
not hoof alive. When the plague breaks
out among cattle In district nothing re-
mains but to slaughter every head before
they are all stricken down and thus save
something out of the loss by turning the
carcasses into salable meat. Hundreds OF
farmers have been utterly ruined between
drought, locusts and this rinderpest, so
South Africa is not a farmers paradise,
even though it may be considered the land
OF gold
The Orange Free State Parliament has
refused to consider motion for the re-
peal of the resolution pledging the Free
State to assist the Transvaal in case of
need. England will have heavy work on
her hand i'll her next attempt at revo-
luton.
In the Transvaal Orange Free State and
Natal the Beers refuse to sell horses, CIV
ing as reason that they may be required
at any moment to strike for their inde-
pendence.
The reason the Matabeles kept outside
the range at Buluwayo was from the fact
that train of dynamite had been laid
around the town. The train was to be
hred by electricity. and the Mata beles
learned this from their spies. The natives
can't understand electricity or dynamite,
and therefore are fearful of both.
At least 1900 Matabele are engaged in
the present war against the Charter Com
pany's forces. Over 160 Europeans are
known to have been killed.
The annual report of The registrar OF
deeds shows that three-fourths OF the total
farms IN the IranSVaal are owned by the
original burghers and the Government,
and the remaining fourth by uitlanders.
There. are IL, ,045 surveyed and inspected,
complete farms in the country; of these
5575 belong to the original burghers, 664 to
foreigners or non-residents, and 525 to
uitlanders resident in the republic, some
of whom are naturalized burghers; 758 are
owned by local companies; 1857 are held,
and have been tioated by foreign COM
panies, whose head offices are in England,
France or Germany, and 1886 belong to
Government. The farms belonging TO
original burghers are estimated to have
cost over $17, 100000. The farms owned by
uitlanders cost over S4,000000; non-resi-
dents paid over 81. 100000; local companies
over $5,900,000, and foreign companies over
SIS, 100000. Farms purchased by Govern
nent for public purposes and native loca-
tions cost over $500, 600. The value of the
farms amount to over $4S, 100000.