JOTTINGS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 6708, 29 May 1900, Page 3

JOTTINGS.

In Lord Robert's entry into Bloemfontein the gallant Welsh regiment were headed by the regimental goat, which has thriven on the hard fare necessitated by the campaign. Since the capture of Quartermastersergeant Berland, Sergeant Rockstrow, who formerly acted as transport sergeant, has acted as quartermaster for the New Zealanders, and has performed his onerous duties in the most satisfactory manner.

During the fight at Colenso there occurred a truly Irish incident. The gallant Dublins, in an attack on the enemy's left flank, paused at a spot for cover, and, also, in order to regain their breath. Here two of the soldiers had a dispute, and before one cauld say Jack Robinson, they were on their feet banging their fists into each other's faces with tremendous vehemence, while bullets whistled by their ears and threw up the dust at their feet. When the best man had won, the Dublins left their cover and went for t c Boers.

One circumstance regarding the war ould afford gratification. At its close we shall possess a more experienced staff of generals than any other power. Moreover, in Lord Roberts himself we shall be able to claim the leading European general.—Saturday Review. Trumpeter Fox, of the First New Zealand Contingent, was the means of saving one of the Bedford Mounted Infantry from drowning whilst bathing in the Modder river. The man got out of his depth, and after watching three of his comrades endeavor to rescue him, Fox dived in and managed to bring him to the shore. Having a little knowledge of the art of resuscitation, Fox, with the assistance of some bystanders, brought the sufferer round. He was afterwards thanked by one of the officers.

Lieut.-General Sir George White will not return to South Africa. ' It was arranged before he left England in September last that he should succeed General Sir Robert Biddulph as Governor and commander-in-chief of Gibralter, and the duties of this appointment it is proposed he should take up on an early date.

The New York Journal of April 3 printed a despatch dated from Bushman's Kop, in which it was stated that the Captain Eeichmann, who is said to have commanded the Boers at Kroon Spruit, is Captain Carl Beiclimann, an officer in the United States army who is with the Boers as American military attache. Trooper Enderby, of the First New Zealand Contingent, has had another narrow escape, this time thanks to his horse. He was among the troops who fell into the Boer ambuscade at Corn Spruit. At the moment a Boer within a few feet of him, had hi 9 rifle actually pointing at Enderby, the latter's horse, alarmed at the din of battle around, reared and came down upon the Boer, putting an end to his fighting days, and enabling Enderby to get away with his comrades.