A NEW ZEALANDER’S BRAVERY

Motueka Star, Volume II, Issue 52, 11 February 1902, Page 3

A NEW ZEALANDER’S BRAVERY

• A trooper of Waldon’s Scouts has forwarded a spirited account of the skirmish in which Trooper Rowe, of Dunedin, distinguished himself by galloping back to the assistance of a wounded comrade named Kearn. He took Kearn up behind him. The Boers signalled them to surrender,-but they refused. After firing several shots, a Mauser bullet stiuck Rowe just below the right eye, passing out of tbe back of his head, and a few moments later be was shot through tbe right arm near tbe shoulder. Kearn, although his comrade was completely disabled, still fougqt on, and would not surrender. After fighting in the bravest manner possible for some time he was struck in tbe right breast, the bullet passing through his heart, and out of his left side. A few of tbe Boers then rode up, amongst them being Piet Botlia. Botha, addressing Rowe, told him he was a brave man for fighting so well. Then, after viewing Kearn’s body, and counting the number of rounds he had fired (seventeen in all) he said, “ The dead man was also very brave, and seldom have I seen men fight braver and better.” One of the wounded was George Robson, the jockey, who rode Glenlotn when he won the Melbourne Cup.

Tbe coming Coronation festivities at Home have caused some congestion in the plans of the Home-going steamers for tbe next month or two. Intending passengers wishing to book their passages now will probably find it difficult, as almost every ship leaving here up to as late as Mav will be full.

A plucky French sailor named Denis stands a chance of making a windfall. He was on board a barque which received so severe a buffeting in the Mediterranean that the captain and crew decided to abandon lier, and boarded a passing vessel. Denis refused to go, and remained on board, doomed, so his companions thought, to a watery grave. However, the vessel remained afloat, and some time after was picked up and towed into Algiers with the lone sailor aboard. Denis intends to claim salvage. The Wellington Official Assignee s experience—a unique one--is that people in that city .vill not come forward and take money that is due to them. It has been notified both publicly through the press, and privately by telephone, that dividends in various estates are payable, but there are quite a. number of local business firms who will not send to the office to get their cheques.

Thirty thousand sheep aud a thousand head of shorthoru cattle are to be sold at the Mangatoro (Hawke's Bay) station on the nineteenth of the present month.

One of the mottoes of the young Maori party, now in conference at Te Aute !is “Whaka tangata kai kalia.” This is an almost literal rendering of St. Paul’s advice to the Corinthians :

“Quit you like men, be strong !” It is possible that an arrangement will be made between the New Zealand Government and the Pacific Cable Board whereby one or the other will undertake both to receive and transmit cable messages at Doubtless Bay, and also work the land lines between Auckland and the cable station, thus doing away with the necessity of employing two separate staffs, as at Wakapuaka. No decision on tbe point, will, however, be come to until Mr Reynolds, the general manager for the Cable Board arrives in Wellington a few weeks hence. The cable station will be only three miles from the township of Mongonui by a fairly good road. Subscription to the MOTUEKA STAR : —Three Shillings aud Sixpence a Quarter, which may begin at anv time