A PRIZE CEMETERY.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 52, 29 September 1900, Page 3

A PRIZE CEMETERY.

Mi 1 Cecil Rhodes is undoubtedly a man of 1 Source and originality, but it is "doubtful if lie has ever conceived and earned out a more novel undertaking than the great bouna-iov-buruls scheme. "He once started a cemetery at Kiinbeiiey (pays IvLA.Pj, and took ; a great deal of pains to make it perfect, chose the sire carefully, had it ©lnboratoiy planted with ; trees, autl did everything possible 1 to miiko it a brilliant; Success., After it was- couipleted he vtyh^ away f rori) ' ICttubeiley fdr so;»W time, and -wh^n -"lie /returned hi weufi 'with hi^ manager 'ta I'o^k^fc* Ms ,qe?»etery,- aud l tdmv% 111 1 h Ws>ty. \ 1 "Tins woVr.do't " exclalr^feiimf Rhodes. ,u-What's, u - What's -tlio -ijieilr^ig -of it ? "Why isifc &uap&Jsf*.3&s

I manager said he fancied it way because the wom^n had an icl^a ! that, bein^ a new ptace, r'wonlil he a little polity ry. "Ob, lwt 1 ! can't have that ! Til offer thorn a premium for the first imm buried her* 1 ," °a\i Mr Rhodes, u little piqued at tb^ ha:o ids-a of a | ficbwixif 1 of his vnj-'jing on "nilnro, and deter n-int-'i, :it any co->r, io brJnp anour n s^coerw. Ho be^'in ]->y (/fi'.'iing a hofufri f o w'nlaw^ nvlhs woultl biiiifif ' ;,'; ,' It ii(i.'''Jin! c > j to bi 1 bnriei] in i ',•» :'( xt "»i^toi \\ hv.l tl'O oiU'r VviiK oL' an 'i.ail j'Jwmuii\Yiy one poor woin.m 'J!"Wm! ];er hn^l^an Ito )k j ;,k; ,k -h u eh( ft-. Ti* 1 was inten^il %vifh £i'- \» ; din! st.ilc, and a huiu^.'srre sfoue i oioctcd «;!>'«" i)isgi;»Yo. f ; '»i own | thciriho F'-l^me h-.n,« lie. Tiu» | hj!ifibil<tii<s ]>.tf)Ri!ig tlio j > o: Mi" bivniiHii ci'trH^" 1 ' t woul 1 lnnli ihroro)] the ruilinj'" 1 , tliin 1 ,, of irio one ye'i'louMiii ]yM: o >?"-.■!<> In Holii-iry htaio, iui'l" «;o away sh«l;ia« tlx-ii b,ea-<l& uiitl 7 edecting how lono'y it ninat, bo. Ai'loi 1 n few weeks, ilr lihodc^ g-st u»aMy exafperfiied. an»l incicvaeil ))itJ bonus to biich cm ext^ul that htiabaiul - runnier or wiio-umrdor might almns 4 hfive j) roved temunor?ti\o. Taen the people e;avc way, nnd ftiuc ial^ at the loji^iy ceinfteiy l^ecairio quite common. Now, it ,'joe*na, rbo Rhodes biifiai ] Hionnd bni'id] ground thveaiens to eu]oy a monopoly of the enstorn of the riibtiict, and to allcv it» piotnoler to turn hi>s addition to in ore chouifal 'ichejiies.