"BANJO" PATERSON.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 248, 17 December 1900, Page 2

"BANJO" PATERSON.

" Banjo " Patbusos, poet, war correspondent and lecturer, who will appear before a New Plymouth (ujliensa this owning, has been meeting with ei)oFmoiit success wherever ho h&sUaturad, In fact, he is bound to draw wherever he appears. He speaks with authority, and cothes his impressions in language torse and understandable. The kinematograph and limelight views with which the lectures illustrated, are very good and give valuable aid to the audiesc# in realising soma pf the episo.dis of the war, " The Banjo" has '! turned up " at most of the important" engagements of ths campaign, He was in at the death on the occasion of illfated. Migerafontein,. he saw Orpnje's host reduced to submission at Fparde* berg, was present ,at the surronder of Prinsloo just after Do Wot slipped from Hunter's grasp, and he was in at the relief of Klmbarley. Any one of these subjects is fraught with sufficient wealth of inoident to constitute in itsalf material for an interesting leoture. , Aggregated as they are and interspersed with a miscellaneous budget of interoS'ing and instructive news conoarning the dwduet of the war in detail and iu general, it ne*cl hardly bo said that Mr. Pat?r»on presents his patrons with a rich bill of fare. He has soon, studied, and formed an unbiased opiuion of the different branches of the service. " The Banjo " lwn a st>ry full of absorbing interest to toll, and ho tell* it in a manner that ! can be undor-to d of all men, j,