War Items.

Manawatu Herald, 17 March 1900, Page 2

War Items.

(From Cape papers.)

Reporting on the appearance of Caesar's camp after a battle it is said tlis Boors were typical of their class, dressed in old clothes, wearing dirty flannel shirts and top boots, with no socks beneath.

One of our Imperial Light Horse (Trooper Gourton, formerly chief brewer to .ho Castle Brewery, Johannesburg, and latterly at the Natal Brewery, Maritzburg) received no less than seven wounds in his body and five in his head, in addition tctf one he got at Elandslaagte. Nevertheless, he is getting on well, and hopes to be at the Boers again soon.

Fresh fruit purchased on Gape 4*? Town market on Saturday will' be ' served out to soldiers in the camps at Bensburg, Belmont, and Modder River to-day (24th January). The credit for this thoughtful act belongs to Mr Chas. Arnold, who after reading the suggestion in the Gape Times on Saturday morning, betook himself to the market and bought up all • the grapes that were to be obtained at that hour — ten o'clock. Mr v mold's appearance in the market caused considerable consternation amongst the coolie monopolists, who ,vere aghast at the spirited bidding of the competitioner, who outdistanced them all and secured forty bushels of the excellent fruit — in all 2,000 lb weight. The baskets were not, of course, sold with the fruit, having to be returned to the sellers, but Mr Arnold immediately purchased a number of boxes, and transferred the fruit to these receptacles. Mr Arnold thought the guests of the country, the Australian and New Zealand contingents, had the first jlaini to his consideration, and accordingly forwarded the grapes to the men in the three camps already named. The whole was sent off by one passenger train on Saturday night, the station authorities kindly promising that the fruit should be delivered on Wednesday. What Mr Arnold has done may surely be folbwed by othe*s. Our correspondent " Macca bean " has forwarded £1 ls^f , to any grape fund.

The "Diggers' News," a Boer paper published at Pretoria, in January had the following view of the contest : — The President is reported i-> be " well satisfied with the position at Lady3rnith. We (" Diggers'* News ") may safely gather therefore chat the recent engagements at Platrand and Eooirantjes have satisfied Pretoria that the investment of Lddysmith is upon the point of prevailing. The enemy is in desperate straits. The soldiers are described as bearing all the signs of a stressful predicament and of privations. Their faces black with the mud of their underground dwellings, their clothes ■vere tattered and torn, all the mili:ary smartness had disappeared, and ' in their men were the signs of lesperation. It is evident that only i little more patience is needed to write Finis. Her 9, as elsewhere, the » ,york of the Boer has been marked by the stamp of thorough, and his .nethods have been both warlike and nagnifieent. The Hoer is the master jf all he surveys, not the millionaire ; irniies have shaken before the thunder )f his fire ; and the Republics are lis to-day more" than ever before. This we call" Kruger's Remedy. In . England the mood is found to be more modest, more becoming. We have great hopes from this altered nood. Having eyes, they try to see. It, may even be the beginning of wisdom and the end of the war. Is bhe time really approaching when " Ichabod " has to be written over the portals of the British Empire ? For surely " the glory is departing!"

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