ANOTHER ACCOUNT.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume II, Issue 92, 6 January 1900, Page 3

ANOTHER ACCOUNT.

Mr Moloney, of the Sandhurst Hotel, i the other rl iy received a letter from his ! brother iti-law and it; confirms the ' ibove. Thi.s gentleman writes that he Ir-it Johannesbuig and went to Ea'-t Louden. They were given three days in which to leave Johannesburg, the ie.>d of the firm leaving three day« !)ufore him. He had the keys of the bhop and was looking after it >vfav.n Di tial \x\v was proftLiinipd For al hittsh subjects tolea\e the Trans\ aal 'Ie left Johannesburg on October 18tl n. d arrived at East I^ondon on ThurAiv after three days and three night i.i the ttain. The two flist nights vvei. -.pout in opau coal trucks, there beuij • uo room to lay clown or even sit. The v had no sleep and no pen could writ what they suffered. They had to ge out of the train at twelve o'clock ft. .light and wa'k over two miles to g> r,o the other train, for the Boers h i 1 gulled up the rails on the bordei j i ht*re W( j re about a hundred aiuit-d B >erB with waggons to carry th lugg.iga, free of chaige. Wliea the 1 , were on British soil (Cape Colony) the\ q )t a carnage tor the remainder of the journey.