HARD LUCK.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 6713, 4 June 1900, Page 2

HARD LUCK.

Probably few men have been harder hit by the war than Mr Luscombe Searelle, the South impresario and musichall proprietor. " His hall in Johannesburg—the Searelleries—has been confiscated by the Boers" (says " M.A.P."), " and sold to a speculative German for £500. As the ratable value of the hall is—or was—£42,ooo, the German may be congratulated on his bargain— that is, if he is able to retain it. Another of Mr Searelle's buildings, in Kimberley, has been turned into a hospital for the use of our trooops, and the question of compensation cannot be settled till . the war is over, so that the owner may well ponder as to whether, as Mr Balfour put it, there it much difference between being sacked by the enemy or relieved by your friends. Strange to say, Mr Searelle is a Boer, but he is not a pro-Boer; indeed, his opinion of the Boers is better imagined than repeated. The fact is Mr Searelle became a naturalised Boer in order to possess full burgher rights, and he actually fought with' the Transvalers in their campaign against the Swazis. But when he was commandeered i_ fight against, us he objected and escaped from ■•■: A^:-.~r^Xx,XMXXX^m^^miSMX^X^X

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