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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1902, 11 October 1906, Page 3

Among the little knot of spectators vrho witnessed lorry’s departure from the Kaiapoi station after Iris second recapture, nono regretted his plight more siuoeroly than Mr H. i'. Cross, a war veteran, who recently arrived in tnis colony after twelve years’ ox-* patience in idouth Africa (says the .Press). Mr Cross states that he knew Terry in 1896, at the time of the Matabele rebellion, both of them being attached to the Buluwayo field forco. Although Terry was not in the samo troop, they were camped at the same place. Mr Gross describes Terry as one of hundreds of gentlemen’s sons who at that time came to South Africa with “sackfuls of references and letters of introduction from dukes and earls ” to the late Mr Cecil Bhodes. Terry, who was a private in the force, was regarded as a “ white man through and through, Ho was noted for his pluck and endurance, and came through a number of engagements in which his courage was tested to the uttermost. Mr Cross (who, by the way, participated in the Jameson Raid, and fought in the last campaign against the Boers, beiDg with Plumer’s column at the relief of Mafeking) thinks that after they drifted apart Terry rose to be either a sergeant or a lieutenant. It was easy to account for his affliction. “ Anyone who has had a touch of malaria or sunstroke out there,’’ he continued, “ is always liable to be a little cracked on the top ” Mr Cross said he intended to go to Wellington at tho time of Terry’s trial for tho murder of a Chinaman, but was unable to get away. He recognised Terry immediately at the Kaiapoi railway station, and gavo him the old riouth Afrieun greeting, “ t-aka bona, mulunga ” (L.e., “ Good-bye, white man”), at which Terry’s face lighted up and he smiled genially in token of farewell to his old comrade.