ADVENTURES OP A SOLDIER.

Patea Mail, 31 August 1880, Page 3

ADVENTURES OP A SOLDIER.

A correspondent in the (llasgow .Mail says :—Some ol! your readers may have observed a paragraph in the papers giving an account of the extraordinary adventures of a soldier named Campbell, the man who led (he Turks up (ho heights of St Nicholas in the Shipka Pass, and who headed the Swazis in the attack on Secococni’s stronghold. Campbell, whom I knew well, was the son of a gentleman in Argyllshire and had served for some time as a Naval cadet, lie joined the volunteers in Taranaki, New Zealand, in June 18Go, when the Maoris broke the truce which had subsisted for some time by the massacre of Lieutenant Tragett and Dr Hope, and about twenty •men of the 57th Regiment. New Plymouth, the capital of the province of Taranaki, was at that time in a critical condition. The women and children had been sent to Nelson, on the Middle Island, 1 and men were constantly beingshot and tomahawked within half a mile of the town. In these circumstances, Major Atkinson, late Premier and present Colonial Treasurer of Now Zealand, raised a bush party to clear the vicinity from these marauders. Campbell was one of the first to volunteer for this service—an especially dangerous one, but which proved most successful. He afterwards joined the cavalry, and saw much service both on the cast and west coasts of Now Zealand. About this time he received a ball through the thigh which troubled him for a long time. When he recovered he went to Australia, and joined the part}' which went in search of Leitchardt the explorer. The rest of hi s career can be gathered from the newspaper paragraph. In person he was tall and very handsome, in fact, a veritable Antonins, and did not know what fear was. There are many in New Zealand who will he sorry to hear of his death.