per head, while the gross estimate for education in the budget for that year amounted to L63,000, which works thus out at a cost of L8 6s.1d.

per head for the Boer children.

Dr.Mansveldt, Head of the Education Department of the Transvaal, a Hollander, seems to have but one aim: to enforce the use of the _taal_, the Boer patois--a language spoken by no one else--the use of which keeps them in isolated ignorance.

The English language is banned.
5 .-- _New Taxes._ This revenue, employed almost exclusively for the benefit of the Boers, did not suffice for the insatiable government in Pretoria.

At a meeting of the Chamber of Mines, on November 21st, 1898, Mr.Rouliot summarized a statement by Mr.Krueger in the Raad, as follows:-- "But recently, Mr.Krueger had said he would give the mines the chance of establishing themselves before a percentage should be imposed upon their returns; and that no tax would be levied till the diggings had been completed, and the machinery set up.