This sum the Boers had at one time considered was as good as in their pockets.

It was believed the greater portion had since been absorbed by the natives, who were in the habit of burying the money they received as wages.

In this quandary, Colonel Baden-Powell designed a paper one-pound note, which was photographed on to thick paper of a bluish tint, and made such an attractive picture that the Government must have scored by many of them never being redeemed.
It was not till Ash Wednesday, which fell that year on the last day of February, that we got our first good news from a London cable, dated ten days earlier.

It told us Kimberley was relieved, that Colesberg was in our hands, and many other satisfactory items besides.

What was even of greater importance was a message from Her Majesty Queen Victoria to Colonel Baden-Powell and his garrison, applauding what they had done, and bidding them to hope on and wait patiently for relief, which would surely come.