FORTY YEARS OF THE BOERS.

Te Aroha News, Volume XVI, Issue 222051, 15 February 1900, Page 2

FORTY YEARS OF THE BOERS.

The Rev. John Allsopp, Wesleyan missionary, who has spent nearly forty years of his life in Natal,, and whose' youngest son is now in Ladysmith, with the Imperial Light Horse,, has. pronounced a vigorous indictment of" the Boers of Newcastle lately. Thn receipts of the lecture will be sent tothe British Refugees Bund in South. Africa. The rev. gentleman, whostated, there was not,a hill, river, or road in Ladysmith,. Estcourt, Dundee*, and Durban districts he had not crossed! and was familiar with, said that LordL,-^"

Wolseley had told him again and again that of all the people he had! met on this earth none were so utterly ignorant-, so utterly, lost to a sense honour, as the Boers. Even Olive, Schreiner, who had herself beefiT'defending them (the Boers), had acknowledged they had a better conscience for lying than any other race. Their treachery was simply unparalleled, and. firing on a flag of truce an old dodge. After Majuba, a frieud of his and a doctoi-, who were attending the wounded under the white flag, were both shot down. The Rev. J. Ritchie, the

chaplain of the forces,, was shot down with the white flag oftruee in hi* hand. There was but one remedy,

oue way to peace—that was wav, and war to the bit f er <md * Kruger’s acre* must go—his millions help to pay for the war.