16 MAY 1896, Page 16

JOHANNESBURG.

[To THE EDITOR OP TEE " SPECTATOR.] Sin,—You may be interested by the following fragment preserved by Stobleus in his " Florilegium," VoL III., p. 231. Recent events at Johannesburg have borne it out,—" 'fa; T.X0•JTOiaI Ta,TO YE,U1L)TO% altatoiary fivar" (" The rich are born