An Interesting Meeting.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7729, 3 February 1905, Page 2

An Interesting Meeting.

There was nn interesting meeting, says a recent Nelson Mail, after the arrival of the I'atee.va, beUveen tw« Crimean veterans-Colonel Koberts, of fi, \r a r C '\ pUUn formerly of the Nelson Artillery. When Captain Hyde heard that Colonel »?. fT S loUrin e thc col »ny l>e Vm „ ° ''l* ohi ""'tenant of the Cimen, nskmg if he was coming to -Nelson, and received a reply that he was, on purpose to see hii comrade Of other days. Colonel Hoberts whois „„ Honorary Aide-de-camp to the King, was in the Artillery during th„ Crimean war, and in later years he held important military posts in New South Wales. Jl„ W as desperately injured i„ lhe c^ a hj, ?k V dC " b, '. is lVom un <«Plosion in the French gun park fell on him. Deputy Assistant Commissary general Yelland, with whom he was conversing at the limy, \ Vn s killed on the spot, his head being burnt olf. Captain Hyde, then a voung man-, on hearing the explosion, rushed out of the tent ami went to the assistance of his ollicer, and [conveyed the latter with another to an hospital tent. When the two I veterans met Uieir greetings were mutually cordial, and an hour or so was spent in pleasant reminiscences of the Crimean campaign.