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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 33, 11 February 1901, Page 4

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■Wbitis-; ;.o too J?.> r is Journal Le\ Jfati». .!. Ca i-a-d says:— Three clo .i-.-i ; t:.!tica!ar hsve firnisl.ed continual* no the wm-, Caeaia Aus.traiisan., all, South Africa. One may mR if mi will, New Zealand, or loclu.ifl i. ; u Australia. Sooth Af'ic. iiia forahhed the mo3t v-Vhrt ,.t ie MB those that have toaahi; fce-t, notably the linpwa! Hov»e a„d Brabintfa Horse, Bub tho wsj cf South Africa n Tn reabtf tae w<r w«, ad: on >-:«r Vewlf and nstarviy th.. T -*<-e anything bat nmaterested. C.«r.ad-, >n.< Aas.ra'ia a'ton? hive codq-5 to :ho of the raothor country. No ~, h-».y hnv,. they coaja ? in what prop-tions. and under wb*t condi ions ? I n i ; -; :..;(; ;1 „ t nual bers, and under c. di;!o: n S u:b as mwy sti angers p.Ji hv.v come for the p.-ioe, To bow, li : cnotwi3h r o dou't the ge.ici..t; patriotism that his drawn A:;f 1- ir a-d to the sidf .-f ?he t:ve\V: ed mUher country; Liu c'aij p;irio--:sn> has been well rr-v.'.r.;,! . Wu,; ft L-am» Atkins was drv*in i'rom •hree tr, five shilJinga at iht a.o.r, t':« a-bmais draw ten, two'.ve, or even fi'twu shillings. I know many j. o .r deviis dying of hanger in l.hu suburb?, who for such pay would go with enthusiasm wherever you wanted tham. You know, too, thec'ass from which the colonial were recruitsd. Exc^p 1 ) tie crnier*. who wars n?ary til gentlemen of the colony, hippy to go and mix with th? London aristocracy, tie men were fjr the most put picked op from out of the papulation of th) ports and cities. Robust, accustomed to lire in the open air, they to the aimy habit 3 eminently fitted to m»ke wtrriow, hut sca-cely pleasing t> Lird Roberts , they were iaevetera'e pillagers, those of AustralU totally, and still more those of South Africi. A largj number of the Miser had fought against the natives 'VVb.ea "eneruls Brabant Bidsn-Powell, and Plum- r recruited before the war the first co'ouhl contingmts at the Cape, they appealed niturally ta sit thoso who had been engaged in fotmer Afrrau expeditions. Thisa wars agaiegs the natives have never passed as schro's cf humanity aDd virtue. Acjoidiogly, the reputation of the colo:nU was not loDg improving itself. An co'onel said to me, "Wh*wr Bryant's have pitrspf) thtr? is nothing left (psn for a gias.lopcer." In fact, the English did nob hi sitUe to treat the ccir.cisis ;*8 thrives, besides disliking the id.ia t f j/r-ttinj; three or fiva sbi'Hus a d-iy, whereas tbes? honorable wp. rots ot the Etupire drrw fifteen'.