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on a balcony and took snap-shots
of my performance. After the guests
had gone I had 2 hours work
with H.E. & I was as fagged
as an old horse when it was all
over.

Everybody here is going home –
the Attorney-General, the Chief-Justice
& Gerard Craig-Sellar. I, only
I, remain. Till Xmas I shall
spend practically all of each week in
Pretoria, & by that time, when Joe [Chamberlain]
arrives, I hope to have a
Lands department working smoothly
& scientifically. The accounts have been
abominally kept & I have a