At the Front.

Manawatu Herald, 30 June 1900, Page 3

At the Front.

Trooper Harry Scott of the 2nd Contingent writing to a friend from Welgelegen on the 17th May, says. We have been fighting constantly ior the last week and are now waiting for big guns to come up from Bloemfontein. We were successful in every fight until yesterday, when we went out to try and capture the Boer transport of 160 waggons, but were fairly shelled back. We have a pretty rough time of it here. I have not had my leggings and boots off for over a week. We have to be very good as we cannot get grog of any kind except after a heavy fight or march, wheu we get a glass of rum served out to as. Except the engagements we are in ourselves we know nothing about the war, and very rarely get a newspaper. We have twice been congratulated by our general. He told us that every man might be proud of himse'f and his mates. So far we have only had one man seriously wounded. Out of the 240 of us who left Wellington there aro only 120 left. Two (Anderson and • Hempton) are dead, and the rest are sick, two not expected to live.