TRIBUTE TO GENERAL BULLER.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 37, 13 February 1904, Page 4

TRIBUTE TO GENERAL BULLER.

A triib'uto 'in paid to ,Kir itcdvcrs Duller by Lord Wolseley in " The Story of a Soldier's Lift'"— his lordship's autobiography, published by Constniblc. Jlullt'i- was one of the men selected for special service by Wolseley in the Ashanlee campaign of 1878-1. "Captain (now (leiioral) Sir linkers Duller, of the Royal Hifi t», was first uiwl foremost as one whose stern determination of character nothing could rullle, whose resource in ■dillieulty was not surpassed hy anyone I ever knew. Fudowetl with a mind fi'uiliiiil in expedients,, coolant! calm in Hie f&ce of every danger, he inspired general ctuiiidence, ami thoroughly deserved it. Had a thunderfVolt hurst at his feet, he would have merely brushed from his rifle jacket the earth it had thrown upon him without any hreak in the si'iilttice he happened to be uttering at Unit'moment. He was a thorough soldier, a practised woodman, a skilful boatman in the most terrifying of rapids, land a m a ii of great physical strength awl tmdurancu." It will I c rrmemU'icd that Duller showed wonderful nerve in the 7,ulu war of ]H7«. If he failed as Commander-in-Chief at the opening of the Doer war it was for the want of q|iialities of another kind.