Show A rainy season even south africa has suffered from the extraordinary rainfalls rain falls which seem to have been prevalent in all quarters of the globe the transvaal is no not t as a rule a country that buffe suffers rs from floods but the recent downfall full particulars of which have now been received in london seems to have rivaled that which caused such widespread havoc in queensland hotels and houses were swept away a suburb of pretoria was almost destroyed numbers 1 of persons and heads of cattle catti were drowned and mines were seriously damaged by the destruction of dams or machinery for miles the country was underwater there seems to have been no parallel to this flood since the transvaal came under european occupation in the country districts the consequences win will be felt most severely by the boer population for british settlers have avoided the transvaal of late but the traders in the towns are largely british as are the shareholders of the mines and both these classes will experience heavy losses |