BREVET-MAJOR BROMHEAD.

Kumara Times, Issue 864, 8 July 1879, Page 2

BREVET-MAJOR BROMHEAD.

The following extract from the letter of an officer with the column un ler Lord Chelmsford, who arrived at Rorke’s Drift on the morning of Jan. 23, will be read with interest;— “From the distance we saw the hospital in flames, and thought all was over. The mounted men rode up carefully, and were greeted with cheers by tin little garrison. When Lord Chelmsford rode up Bromhead came out alone to make his report, and was received most enthusiastically by what was left of Lord Chemsford’s column. The men never stop their yarns about him and we are full of admirati m at the coolness, forethought, pluck and determination which he showed. With hardly a man to spare He still pasted two men in the commissariat rum stores to prevent any from helping themselves During every lull in the alack he sailed out, disarmed the dead Zulus, and destroyed their weapons. In the middle of the night he went with one man to see for himself how the reserve ammunition was holding out. Cautiously striking a match to count the boxes the Zulus saw it an fired; the lantern Was smashed, and the man killed.”