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place to well-coustructed liuts, and these latter also 

 were being to a considerable extent supplanted by 

 buildings of brick, of ^vliicli material a fair quality 

 is beino- manufactured here. Over three hundred 

 building stands had been taken uj) from the 

 Chartered Company. A building stand measures 

 100 ft. by 40 ft. ; it is Hable to a tax of 1/. a 

 month. In the first days of the settlement the 

 company granted away these stands without ask- 

 ing for the payment of any premium. As the 

 demand for them increased, the prudent policy was 

 adopted of putting them up to auction, and about 

 one-third of the total number at this time occupied 

 were sold at prices per stand ranging from 11. to 

 100/. A well-situated building stand conunanded 

 a good price. I heard of one such, on which had 

 been erected two single-roomed huts and a shed, 

 l^eino- sold for 500/. The enclosure belonoino- to 

 Messrs. Johnson, Heaney, and Borrow is the most 

 important and conspicuous in the settlement. 

 Situated on the northern slope of " the kopje," 

 some ten acres in extent, surrounded by a Ioav but 

 massiA'e dry stone wall, it contains large store- 

 houses, stables, and sheds for cattle, a Avorkshop, 

 and a smithy, and is dotted at one end with roAvs 

 of wheeled vehicles rano-ino- iu size and character 

 from the " buck waggon " to the buggy. Higher 

 up " the kopje," among shady trees, is the dwell- 

 ing-house, mainly constructed of brick, to which 

 leads a broad and well-kept gravel path. Here 

 also is the commencement of a promising garden, 

 the only one in the settlement. The whole place 



