J.Chamberlain was announced as likely to take place during the next few months, and the advent of this distinguished Colonial Minister was a subject of great satisfaction to the harassed High Commissioner.

As at Cape Town, his staff was composed of charming men, but all young and with no administrative experience.
Among its members were included Colonel W.Lambton, who was Military Secretary; Captain Henley and Lord Brooke, A.D.C.'s; and Mr.Walrond.
The Golden City itself was, to all outward appearances, as thriving as ever, with its busy population, its crowded and excellent shops, and its general evidences of opulence, which appeared to overbalance--or, in any case, wish to conceal--any existing poverty or distress.

Among many friends we met was a French lady, formerly the Marquise d'Herve, but who had married, as her second husband, Comte Jacque de Waru.

This enterprising couple were busy developing some mining claims which had been acquired on their behalf by some relatives during the war.

In spite of having been deserted at Cape Town by all the servants they had brought from Paris, this clever lady, nothing daunted, had replaced them by blacks, and one night she and her husband offered us, at the small tin-roofed house where they were residing, a sumptuous dinner which was worthy of the best traditions of Parisian hospitality.