The Captured Maxim.
The brief story of the captured maxim, which the men by the Tongariro have brought to the colony with them, was told by Captain Crawshaw, of the Second Contingent, at the smoke concert at Dunedin on Wednesday night. He heard, he said, that they wanted to hear a yarn about the Maxim gun. Well, he would try and toll it to them. On May sth 1900, the Boers were potting at the Second Contingent with two Maxims. The New Zealanders and some of the New South Wales chaps crossed the river, and, taking up a spruit, or gully, as it would be called in New Zealand, Colonel Cradock gave the order to advance, and the result of that attack was seen in the streets of Dunedin in the procession; and, what was more, the very men who captured the gun were the men who were prepared to walk through the streets of Dunedin with it.
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 18 May 1901, Page 3
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158The Captured Maxim. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 18 May 1901, Page 3
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