80 A COLONY IN THE MAKING chap. 



Would it be too much to suggest that an entertaining 

 allowance should be added to a salary which hardly 

 errs on the generous side ? Possibly also a free 

 shooting licence, not to include elephants, would 

 continue to keep up the supply of sportsmen which is 

 so eminendy desirable. On the other hand, there is an 

 item — i.e., travelling allowance — which always seems 

 rather in the nature of a farce, seeing that all travelling 

 expenses are paid, and the allowance, which varies 

 from £$ a day in the case of the Governor to Rs. 5 a 

 day in the lower grades, is given for those very periods 

 when the recipient is already saving money. It 

 certainly offers a temptation to abuse. 



Settlers consist naturally of many grades, classes, 

 and races. There is the rich shooter who takes up a 

 farm, and there is the farmer or bailiff he sends out to 

 farm it. The first is to be welcomed for the capital he 

 sends out, the second for himself. There is the large 

 farming occupier like Lord Delamere. There is the 

 small squatter. There is the sheep farmer. There is the 

 market-gardener. There are the employers and the 

 employees. There are the shop-keepers and the 

 farmers. There are the British and the Boer. All 

 are welcome. 



There is only one class against whom everyone's 

 hand is turned, and even he has his uses ; I mean the 

 land speculator. Such a one is he who, having 

 obtained as big a block as possible, holds on with a 

 view to the ultimate sale at an enhanced price, due 

 principally to the labours of others. Against this man 

 everyone's wit and energy, official and settler, are 

 turned. It must, however, be borne in mind that in a 

 new country like this practically everyone to a greater 

 or smaller degree is a land speculator, and that 





