TRANSVAAL, To the Editor of the "Noxrn. Cuina Dairy News."
Sin,—I regret that in my letter published in your issue of the. 11th inst, 1 omitted to state that the rate of mortality in.the African mines for July 1903 by Winsome, Kid, Spoondrift and Violet, in the order named.
The loader was|Which I gave as 112 per thousand, was soon passed and the Kid went well the rate per annum.
The omission, how-away from the others, Spoondrift and ever, would be apparent to any one who Winsome contending for second place. reflected that at anything like such The breaking of her jib-boom put monthly rate as that, the whale number Ethel out of the race, and Violet, who of labourers might be expected to die off had gained somewhat in the Pagoda|in actor of the mortality in the mines of the less than a year The ap] Hing char-char, lost any chances she might have Transvaal is best seen by contrasting it by mistaking the mark-boat. Winsome, cleverly steered through a mi stream with the rate in British coal mines which course, rounded the mark-boat first, Kid]1 have good authority for saying is less following nest, and Spoondrft, who waa than 10 per thousand. Taking the healthy months of 1903 with the unhealthy the in sti ngo hands, owing to the illness of average rate for the whole year in the her ual skipper, well in the rear. In} ye the ryn home with the wind, the positions Witwatersrand mines tated by Lord Milner to have been 71.25 per thousand. wore unchanged.
Finishing times were as follows
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