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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 387, 11 April 1902, Page 2

BOTHASBERG FIGHT.

By Telegraph—Press Association. Christchurch, last night. Letters were received to-day from troopers at the front giving details of the Bothasberg fight on February 23rd. A son of Dir Hardie, manager of the Farmers’ Co-operative Association, writing under date February 28th, after describing the fight, says : “ To-day Lord Kitchener came from Pretoria on purpose to see our New Zealand men. After lining us up, he told us he had cqme to compliment us on the plucky stand made against such odds. He said our gallantry was a credit to New Zealand, and to all the British Army and Empire. The way our men fought and remained in the trenches was one of the pluckiest things in the campaign, not one man leaving his post. The way they stuck to this tiresome and hard work was a credit to them. Lord Kitchener talked to the men in a very familiar manner. Several of the men have been mentioned in orders for the gallant way they stood to the pom-pom after all the gunners had been killed.”