PROSPECTS IN SOUTH AFRICA.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 6714, 5 June 1900, Page 3

PROSPECTS IN SOUTH AFRICA.

Trooper C E. Enderby, writing to Mr R. H Nolan, says:—A rsal good practical farmer would do well here from all accounts, if the same teems are offered by the British Government as the Free State Government has ha tha past. The latter has been letting a man take up as much land as he liked at a rental of JEIO pen annum. It does not matter how much land—one acre, or rather " morgan" (about2i acres), or th°£ sana J you only pay" a rent of £10. They have also bean iupplyin» wire for fencing free of cost. A bullock will do well and fatten on fsur acres, jgl per acre will purchase land about here. The way they reckon growing is by what they sow. A four bushel bag of oats ov wheat will produce from tkirty to forty sacks ; one sack of maize will produce from forty to fifty sacks. Oats as a % rule are not threshed but sold in the Bheafat 6d per sheaf. Maize (mealies) is tha principal product, very little wheat. The demand has always exceeded the supply. Johannesburg can itself always take all preduce grown round Blosmfontein. A fat bullock in times <sf peace is worth from - £U to £16. Wages in Kimberley for carpenters or bricklayers are as follows -. — The former £25 to £30 per month ; the latter up to £85 par .month.