SPLENDID EXAMPLE OF THE NUNS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVIII, Issue 6, 8 February 1900, Page 20

SPLENDID EXAMPLE OF THE NUNS.

The Sisters, who opened their part in the campaign in South Africa so well, are still metaphorically sticking to their guns. ' Splendid Example of the Nuns ' is a heading in a London paper over an announcement from Mafeking that ' the convent has received eight shells, but the nuns still refused to leave.' They are pretty well protected, we (Tablif) are glad to know, apart from the fact that so many of the shells used in the bombardment seemed made warranted not to explode ; but at any rate their conduct is such as to impress the correspondent with the fact that, in the midst of people easily panic-stricken, they ' are setting a splendid example.' From the Sisters of Nazareth in Johannesburg a cable dated the first Sunday in December has come, through the courtesy of the Portuguese Legation, to the anxious Mother-General at Hammersmith. It gives none but good news: ' Sisters and chargea in excellent health ; sufficient provisions.' This last statement means a good deal ; for the Sisters — thirteen in number — have some hundre Is of old people and children in their keeping. On the score of food, however, they have not had need for any anxiety ; for, at the outbreak of war, the Government of the South African Republic gave them the welcome announcement that it would afford them supp'ies if their own failed.