| Show A stalny season even south africa haa suffered from the extraordinary rainfalls rain falls which seem to have been prevalent in all quarters of alie globe the transvaal is not as a rule n country that suffers 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 of persons and heads of cattle 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 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 aa are the shareholders of the mines and both classes will ez princ heavy losses |
