A TOWN ONE YEAR OLD.
A redtkr’s telegram from Cape Town reports the celebration on the 20th nit. of the first anniversary of the town of Johannesburg, in the Transvaal, of which the Cape Argus says “Twelve months Johannesburg had no existence beyond the tin shanties ot prospectors. To day Johannesburg is as much a town as anything wo have to show. It has its wide streets, its hotels, its five newspapers, and it is peopled with some of the most energetic and buoyant people in South Africa.” The Presbyterian church is to ho opened on the 22nd, and the Wesleyan chapel on the Sunday following, and the English Church a week later. The town thus rapidly improvised is situated thirty miles from Pretoria, in the centre ot what is supposed to he one of the most promising of the Transvaal goldfields, to which there has been a rush from all parts of South Africa.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WT18871224.2.33.26
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2412, 24 December 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)
Word count
Tapeke kupu
155A TOWN ONE YEAR OLD. Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2412, 24 December 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
No known copyright (New Zealand)
To the best of the National Library of New Zealand’s knowledge, under New Zealand law, there is no copyright in this item in New Zealand.
You can copy this item, share it, and post it on a blog or website. It can be modified, remixed and built upon. It can be used commercially. If reproducing this item, it is helpful to include the source.
For further information please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in