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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 eminently 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 ^3 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 
