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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume II, Issue 8, 15 June 1899, Page 3

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The takings lov the four <fays of tho Du-j.'din Winter i<how .Tmoniit.-d to , £533, a-j against XCO2 at last winter ' '.!lOY>'. SiboiU will b<> largely rr-prpsented in P.ms m 19C0, the f.xt, t,rnp ar. nnv oxiiib.tion, '(he new lai'nay a"d tlio lnl)d^ it has opened will be fully lepiosontucl. F)i,nc3 is banl«ned wilh 40H.CCO public o'^-.'Tk.'s eoslnijT tho S^ito Ut5,000,r,00 frdiics o v \,, . nfcorain^ t > the e'-'iiuflle oi a Fi\)iK-Vi p. pT. Wo ti.v.'e .lhcmt ns nieiiy vi tl'is <u> f ir Kttle ooiosiv, io pvopoition to pern himo,). It t 'kf^ .015 puLcomsn to kep tho 900 C) 0 ppoph» of Detioifc ja ui\l v, 'on porip.t.ed . ,vub i!j«> 315 Jpqujie.l in Milvai.kcp. uiitve thf nmubeV of neo [?'e is Hb/nt Hui same, or t!ie 300 ?'i j Clovelancl. with a-papnb^o.* oi 231 000. Ths finest feis in { ]) Eva i . aru- i.-,<l asulv as (r.lrrtc, t-,xA hocn-uc i,hc pr >• poriy (,f f,hp down. « t> bitjhly 'Jin) Uie-e -fiiv, pstefj-osd t,!wt po pVr-^i beiov/ a conaia i,\i k is allowed to wour them. A well-known spe'-ia'ht i^n ear djpa*?.»<? bn- inuile tbo a ino'ititt- uetlt ti\*t-')iß'Mh'*j tica.'ne-- prevalent a, me pWp;3t'titice «v,« le t- icetl to tJixj jhajUte vi fioaliSifi^^ite orciuidrfcn. *>^-

A private letter received in Oamavu from Johannesburg states that there is great unrest amongst the Outlanders> They realise that there is every hkehhood of the Boers defying the British Government, m which case w.ir would eventuate. The residents ot Johannesburg aro without aims, and divad the vengeance of the Boeis. Women and children %\ere, at the date of the despatch of the letter, being sent to Cape Colony, and the men left realise that, if hostilities are to break out, their safest plan will be to quit Johan nesbing, and lea\e it to its fate. The fate ol Johannesburg vi ould probably be destruction. There is a ceitainty ot the Boers being defeated, and thereafter Johannesburg would have to be re bmlt. and the mines re-opened. "\Yar would entml vast losses on the piopeitv owneis ot Johannesburg, who <ue most] v British. The person from whom the letter was received anticipates vv.ir, and the destruction of British property in the Republic. He sa;ys as the Outlanders are entirely without aims their only plan would be to leave the country till ptace was seemed, or return as armed men to do battle with the Boers. It is questionable, however, whether the Boers would wantonly destroy pioperfy.