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Major-General Archibald Hunter, with 500 Natal volunteers and 100 Imperial Light Horse, on Thursday surprised Lombarkshop, destroying a six-inch gun and a howitzer, and capturing a Maxim gun. The force lost one killed, and had one wounded.
The 19th Hussars the same night raided Pepworth Hill, near Bester's, burning the Boer's laagers, and cutting the barbed wire protecting them. Captain G. L. Holdsworth, of the 7th Hussars, with 85 mounted police, brilliantly surprised a laager at Sequain, a Transvaal township on the Marico river, wounding 28. The attacking force returned safely to Mochudi, Bechuanaland, having ridden 100 miles in 13 hours.
Train loads of gaily-dressed Pretoria ladies weekly visit the hills round Ladysmith to watch the bombardment.
Both deaf and dnmb they said he was, Because he could not hear or speak. He'd simpy lost his voice, that's all, His head banged up for just a week ; Bat now he hears the least thing drop, He sp.aks in accents strong and pure. To say that he'd been dead ere this, Except for Woods' Great Peppermint Cure.
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Manawatu Herald, 12 December 1899, Page 2
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