The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1896-08-01
BULUWAYO.
rwo Years Ago Matabele Kraai, LIN.
Has Clubs and Hotels. wv

Has Clubs and Hotels. s
Buluwayo has become unexpec,.h
and through no desire on its mari ~
center of unusual interest to ali Rr. .ae
people. A little more than two va ..sA
ago it was the chief kraal of old ro Nus
gula and his dusky warriors. Tban ~,
irrepressible Britisher stepped -
claimed it for his own, and fasbionas
and modelled it into the semblapca -
motherland township, with most of ~
concomitants that go to make un a o;a
ilized community. Now we are alarmed
with the news that the Matabeles bs,s
risen in force, and are irresistibIv r.
minded of the struggles in the earlis.
part of this century between the whit.
pioneers and the Kaffirs.
No better idea of the position oeon
pied by Buluwayo to-day could be oh
Gained than by glance through the col.
umns of its papers. The Buluwaro
Chronicle is Il well-printed eipht-naoo
journal, published twice weekly, and
containing a brave show of advertise
ments as testimony to the enterprsa
of the settlers. Already the editor fnds
cause to chasten: "Therc are yarion.
events occurring in Buluwayo which
denote the transition of the town from,
the rough-and-ready period to that NJ
the settled stage. Men are more care.
full in their dress, and the age NJ
starched shirts and dress suits has ar.
rived. The free and careless order 10
relegated to the old, obstinate pioneers
who will not change. But, if the change
has its good side, it has also its reverse
for there is not the dependence on the
word that there was in other times
| The lawyers are more busy, and the
reading of this or that clause is now
contested, and a judicial decision oh.
tained, where previously the spirit in
which the contract was entered into
was religiously acted up to-
What right has dress clothes in this
recital? And what connection has
starched shirts with an indifference TO
ones word? is it the advent of the
lawyers, who. unlike their English
brethren, are not above advertising
their presence? Litigation would be
difficult without these gentry And
what has Buluwayo to do with dress
clothes? Do they dine there at a fash
ionable hour. or are the Young exqus-
ties preparing for the opening of the
new opera house, which is to be erected
by a company with a capital Of Co.,
900? This opera house is to have an
elegant exterior" seating accommO-
dation for 500, and to be lighted by
electricity. Modernity with ven.
geanee in old Lobengula's Buluwayo.
Buluwayo, too, has its club a number
of hotels, a stock exchange las matter
of course), building society on mutual
principles, a chamber of commerce, a
circuit court, polo club and lodge Of
Free Masons. True, a remnant of prim-
tive habits, dating from two years ago,
survives here and there. What shall We
say, for instance, of the stubborn old
pioneers who persist in turning their
horses adrift in Eighth avenue to make
their way back unattended to The
stables? No wonder our editor calls il
an extraordinary pastime." The
thing couldn't be done in London
Buluwayo must put stop to it.
One piece of gratifying news is
that the Buluwayo Laundry company
| int
large oversubscribed." Buluwayo will
now have the opportunity of getting de
Gently clean shirts. This is, we repeat
gratifying. Dress clothes would lool
strange without the complement O.
starched shirts. Then one finds innu
merable other instances of the progress
of Buluwayo. Some one has beeom'
bankrupt there, or gone into liquida
ton, aud a snopleeper is already hold
ing a clearance sale at which enormou
bargains are TO be had. The Wesleyan
, have built new church on Ninth ave
nue., and had Conversations to cele
brate the event. Suburban resorts, toe
are springing into existence, CERTAIN
, gentleman having taken the NeIs
Harp hotel, at the umgusa river 81
miles out, with the intention OF malan
1t "A popular place for shooting matche
, pigeons, not lions), cricket, tennis an
other essentially British sports.
| English farmers will turn green WI
envy on reading the prices paid 10
produce in Buluwayo. Butter realize
, from Z shillings to 10 shillings penC
, per pound. Eggs are to be had 70
/ modest little sums varying from sm
t lings pence TO ~ shillings per dozcl
4 though this is somewhat difficult
4 comprehension, when fowls are ON
= worth from shillings 6 pence to Sd,
= lings each. Do not the hens lay
S Matabeleland2 And if they do no
e whence come the fowls? Cabbage 10
= is at a premium, being worth rom
shllings to shillings 6 pence ea \.
Probably the people of Buluwayo u
pense with butter, eggs and cabbage
: superhuous luxuries, unless they d
n all becoming wealthy.
!, And row. like bolt from the blue
! read of Buluwayo being in danger i,sV
= from the men who once owned lhe IA
: an unpleasant reminder that savas
cannot be subjugated and ciylii1eu IL
. day.-Pall Mall Gazette.