The Warwickshire Herald. — 1891-08-27 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

ENEMA'S NEW CIIY.  We often speak—like the Americans used to speak of Chicago—of Kimberley and Johannesburg as wonderful cities for their age. King Khama's Bechuana city of Palapye is a city not one whit less wonderful than either. Palapye is a native town covering some 20 square miles of ground, holding some 30,000 inhabitants; yet, less than 15 months ago, there was no such place as Palapye in exist. ence. You walk through its broad avenues, you thread its well-trodden bridle-paths and footpaths, you admire its tine central square on which a grand review might be held; you admire still more the comfortable red-clay thatched cottages—it seems sacrilege to write them down huts—with their neat enclosures, in which the "aboriginal," as they call him in Australia, may sit under his own vine and fig-tree, none daring to make him afraid; you enjoy gratefully the shade of the trees, the size of the oaks of Government-avenue, Cape Town, which . .  everywhere screen the dwellings and paths from tin sun, at the same time affording homes for thou sands of chirping, twittering, and singing birds you note on every hand neatness and comfort, and s simple, innocent enjoyment of life; and yot marvel at the native wisdom which has chosen such t model site for the town, on fine red sandy soil, with excellent and abundant water supply,the purest air, and fine views on every hand. Here you find an immense store and outfitting establishment; then you find other stores; and around the corner a neat little galvanised office where, for five shillings, yot may send a message in two minutes to your friends 4800 miles away. Yet it was only in August and September of 1889 that the first dwellings were built in Palapye, and its inhabitants moved in a body, men,women, and piccaninnies, old and young,fron dieir homes at Shoshong. At this day, the well known starting point for hunters and travellers, the ;reat mart for poultry, Shoshong, or, as it wat more commonly styled, Bamangwato or 'Mungwato, is a mere heap of charred ruins at the foot of the hills which its former inhabitants used as then fortress, and now we have in its place Palapye tin Wondrous, all alive, healthy, and beautiful. If wt remember that this marvellous work, the exodut from Shoshong and the re-housing at Palapye, wet a work carried out by a native chief himself, with iut the slightest European assistance, we shall ad nit that Khama's fine city of Palapye is one o' the most wondrous cities under the sun.—"Zam teens, England's Eldorado in Africa." By E. P Ilathers. (London: King, Sell, and Railton )  Visitor: "How much the baby resembles its mother." Father: "Yes; it talked when it was only six months old."  The following suggestive advertisement appears ii In ecclesiastical organ: "Wanted, a young mat to attend to cows and pump, lic." "I wish to ask the Court," said a facetious lawyei who had been called to the witness -box to testify al In expert, "if I am compelled to come into the ease, in which I have no personal interest, ant give a legal opinion for nothing?" "Yes, yes— zertainly," replied the mild-tempered judge; "give it for what it is worth." A tramp was arrested, taken before an Australiat justice, and sentenced to three months. His won ship, in explaining the sentence, remarked that while there was no evidence that the prisoner had been guilty of any crime, he thought it prudent to commit him, as no bad the wild, haggard look of a man about to start a newspaper.  Mr. Thomas Donkin, aged 42, master plumber, Hodnet. Shropshire, met with a horrible death on Saturday. .He took a gun down from the kitchen ceiling for the purpose of cleaning it, not knowing it was loaded. Whilst doing so the trigger somehow came in contact with an iron vice, and the gun went off. The whole of his skull was blown off.  Four negroes of the Shekiani tribe are now before the Senegal assize court, charged with having murdered two women, cut them in pieces, and roasted and eaten their flesh. The police, being informed, made a raid on the village at night, and seized 20 persons, amougat them the four alleged murderers in questisa.