. Natal province : descriptive guide and official hand-book . considerably and become not only the market town of a thriving farmingindustry but one of the principal industrial centres of the Eastern the season of 1908 and 1909 respectively, 6,000 bales of wool were despatchedfrom Standerton railway station. The town, which in normal times has apopulation of 1,300 whites, has played its part in the history of the stood a protracted siege in the Boer War of 1881, being gallantly held forGreat Britain by Captain Carl von Brandis. During the war which began in1899, Stand
. Natal province : descriptive guide and official hand-book . considerably and become not only the market town of a thriving farmingindustry but one of the principal industrial centres of the Eastern the season of 1908 and 1909 respectively, 6,000 bales of wool were despatchedfrom Standerton railway station. The town, which in normal times has apopulation of 1,300 whites, has played its part in the history of the stood a protracted siege in the Boer War of 1881, being gallantly held forGreat Britain by Captain Carl von Brandis. During the war which began in1899, Standerton was again prominent, as in the course of the operations in theEastern Transvaal it was occupied by General Buller, and constituted animportant base of operations. In the future, Standerton is destined to play alarge part in the economic history of the Transvaal, for there is no doubt thatthe district is peculiarly fertile, has fine pasturage for sheep and cattle, andits mineral possibilities which have been investigated—are great. After the train le
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