The finest buildings of Bulawayo are, first, the long, low building
occupied by the Stock Exchange, Telegraph, and Post Office, the Bulawayo
Club building, which is extremely comfortable, Sauer's Chambers, and the
Palace Hotel, the latter being incomplete; when finished commercial
travellers will, no doubt, find it comfortable, and it may be suitable
for ladies.
There are two daily papers, the _Bulawayo Chronicle_ and _Matabele
Times_, sold at 3 pence per copy. I have also seen the _Rhodesia
Review_, which is, I believe, a weekly issue. There are seven
churches--the Wesleyan, Congregational, Church of England, Dutch
Reformed, Presbyterian, and Roman Catholic, and one Temperance Hall.
There is, of course, a gaol, a fire brigade, and police station. In the
gaol are several prisoners, white and black. The crimes of the whites
have been burglary, theft, and drunkenness. Among the blacks are
fourteen prisoners under sentence of death.
The railway station is fairly adapted for its purpose, though its
construction was, necessarily, rapid. The settling reservoirs, fed by
pipes from the dams, are not| far from it; but I fear that they will be
of little use, as the soil is too porous. A coating of cement would
make them effective, but the general opinion is that cement would be too
costly.