THE BOER ADVANTAGES.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 25 January 1901, Page 3

THE BOER ADVANTAGES.

Surgeon-Captain Thomas, of Timaru, writing to Mrs Thomas from Klei'sdorp on November 2:5, says:—"New Zealand and English papers seem to consider the war is practically oyer. I wish I could think so. We have met with more opposition from the Boers and had more sniping and small fights during the last month than we had two months ago. The Boors are not nearly so sick of it as we are, because they have not had anything like the hardships to contend with thai we have. Their intelligence department is perfect. They know exactly where our columns are, and on a wet night most of them sleep in farmhouses, where they know they arc safe'. Any house is their own whenever they like to turn in. We, meanwhile, doss down on the veldt. Wet or fine, most of them sleep under cover and have a good breakfast, then go out sniping for the day, with a bit of biltong in their pockets, and return (o the nearest house in the evening for food and sleep. They do not wish for anything more than biltong and mealie meal, of which they have plenty. I don't see how we arc going to bring things to a close as long as their leaders are at large, and as long as they remain in the hilly country they are sticking to now it is impossible to catch em."