INGLEWOOD.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 153, 24 July 1901, Page 2

INGLEWOOD.

(from odk own correspondent). Somewhere it hss been said tbafc Engl ishmun take their pleasures sadli>, but that is a mistaken notiorj, as anyone at lnglewood since last Thursday can prove. First there was a great welcome to Colonel Daviss, followed by a terribly heavy smoke concert to start with, and it has been nothing else but band playing, volunteers parading, fheworks displays, processions showing Kurger and so on, till the time of rejoicing was brought to a close by a smoke concert given by the citizens to Colonel Daviea and all the troopers returned from the front, on Monday night. At this function there were 150peraons present, Mr. B. H. Nicholls occupying the chair, Mr. E. Tickers being in the vice-chair. The guests of evening were: Lvu l, .-Colonel Dwies, Captain Nops, Troopers Payne, Gable, Hansen, Crewe, Langmm, Valentine, and Macinder. A very lengthy t as& li*t was gone through, intermingled with songs and recitations. Uolonel D.vies, responding to the toast of " The Army and Navy," said that he once saw it stated in the Mafeking Daily News that a man who says he likes being under fire, is either a fool or a. liar, and he thought the very s ime. Still, he had never heard of one case whero the, Imperial troops turned back, without being ordered, fire or no fire. Speaking of prisoners of war he told a very amusing incident of a capture by the Boers of three or four pro vision waggons in which were found some dozen or two cases of whiskey, some sixty men from tha infan'ry forming an escort to the waggons. Tae Boers oa cipturing the waggons served but to their prisoners a bo'tle of whiskey each, and when found by a regiment of English horse, ovary one of the sixty min were speeehles»ly drunk. Rof'.rring to M<jor Ma 'docks, he thought his action in the defence of New Zealand Hill could not be tos highly commeoded. Although the Colonel claims to be do speaker, he succeeded in giving these present a very good idea of military warfare, and after a twenty nrcutes spsech, resumed h'S seat amidst cheers. During the course of the fcvening a subs"ription was taken up oa behalf of the local band, and netted the large amount of U 12s.