Each applicant has to be recommended by the mayor or magistrate, and brings a check with him.

I suppose the promise to pay at the end of the siege is only a nominal formula.
The civilian Indians and Kaffirs number 150 and 300 respectively, and draw their rations at the station, the organisation being under Major Thompson, A.C.G., as is the whole of the milk supply, now set aside for the sick.

The Indian ration is atta, 4 oz.; rice, 3 oz.; mealie meal, 9 oz.; salt, 1/2 oz.; goor, 1-1/4 oz.; amchur, 1/4 oz.

And those who will eat meat get 8 oz.

twice a week instead of mealies.