NSW ZEALAND PLUCK

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 302, 10 June 1879, Page 3

NSW ZEALAND PLUCK

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tiurae few days ago we noticed an in~rar'eVof pluck"in a lad of thirteen, who Lad found his way back from the Old Country to sYhntiganui. To-day, we have to rr>cr"t nnrtl c h,ok to the credit of our Kgt Z<- aland beir j outr- Iα this case the \ t t \ 1 1 j-i 3Ui the Colony to tl p U . Couiiui, anl Cmterbury claims t J t it » onii 0 ad v.-'turer as one of ie v in * i s dentin* d with thousands c -t t( no (Uiubt -aorie day to prop up Uf ii o = ex that " iot.cn Old Country" 0 1 on. mg coi di ion writers of the n -an il --L, LaAt- been much wont to jv c lUilat' 1 It is villi many become 7 L " t lh i>>le£ad that the old race - " r\>oi i • to tl t ciogs" where it came i on n ••> Admitting the fact, \ i> q it Jear tli t the sole hope 01 t , 2 novation ct Aα British race— \ h it U it {tun ungating —rests in 1 1 - ( lorn tl to is who, when Eng--1 . '•n hx v h \c ill degenerated into ji i > " of tlie nnk &rx," will go Home,' t v-i i i ' n>2 i the pretty girls, h>. Hj.it i id tree to its prisx, j ' u\ x uj i ;eats itself;" here i tl 1 ) oi the antiquity i. a in i>, v *< f-peak, will be i uaru , Lj ti jupiilaiiou of the IJL I ie h J vii ilape of the i — n \t( * n indeed, to many of 'he ol i tl 001, who lock back through the liaze tl at is ia-t do a g in upon us all— \ic jrs ut the petit, to visions of " staying i':," long impositions, the waving (not i nt!, a a\iig de i reidcr) terns of the °\ i irch, uid the s mdry other instruu pit ->i *orturel> v Inch the Dr Syntax ] i cr to ensure a retain of ! i pre s tnough the meu t i) i s<. uio of Jl *he grand events i to y f i i(i t r dUuiL itßalaklnva.the , n i ncf (id c nip at llorke's _ } ic< v , though not less t i dluUa now stand i d )j fie pages of Brit i who have borne , i -fl c o two gallant i loivhihcii), will never L ) > il en icllow countryt i %, i trd Lauouchere v re few who, j i _1 nt Isanin> J c-pod from the -v) i o ofiicer is a son oj:

Captain Kobert Greaves, formerly, SubCollector of the Customs and Harbour Master at Akaroa, and was born there some 22 or 23 .years ago. He weut Home to study engineering, and not long ago went out to Cape Colony to " look around." We cone!udo that war being imminent, the arts of peace .were not being briskly enough prosecuted to encourage him to turn his attention to them just then. At all events lie joined the 3rd Native Contingent (.Natal), known as the Zerarji, or Zerarzi, contingent, as a private, but had already attained the rank of Second Lieutenant before the attack on Isandhalla. Immediately after the action he was promoted to the rank of Captain, together with a Lieut. Worsley, Ja friend who had Jjoined the ranks as a private at the same time as Captain Greaves; and who is related to some old Canterbury, settlers, of the same uaine. Private letters from his comrades speak of our young New Zealander's steady progress as consequent on his good conduct and high bearing. We are satisfied that, should he be spared, we shall hear yet more to the credit of this officer before the Zulu war is brought to a close.