PUNISHING TREACHERY.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 1 August 1901, Page 4

PUNISHING TREACHERY.

In course of a complimentary banqu et tendered to Trooper B. Haines by the ladies of Waikiwi, on Tuesday evening, one of the returned men, Trooper Wyse, gave a graphic account of one of the thrilling incidents inseparable from war —the execution of a party of Boers for treachery. A patrol, consisting of two Canadians and Australian Bushmen, had called at a farmhouse, where they were hospitably treated, and departed, leaving all property intact, unsuspecting any duplicity. They had not proceeded far when one of the Canadians fell from his horse mortally wounded by a shot from tho house they had just lefr. They immediately galloped back, when the Boer woman boasted of having shot their comrade, and expressed regret that she had not finished the others. Incensed by the cold-blooded treachery, the Canadian led the party in metingout swift retribution. Tho woman was first hung, then six of the men, and, running out of rope, plough chains were requisitioned for tho last man to complete the gruesome work. The trooper remarked that ct seemed revolting and some might .-ay unjustifiable, but, when it was remembered that tho two Canadians were mates from childhood, that, though of independent means, they had volunteered for service solely from patriotic motives, and this leniency in leaving the farm unmolested was rewarded by wbat was nothing less than murder, he held that the punishment, though awful, was fully merited.