WOLSELEY IN SOUTH AFRICA.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1003, 12 September 1882, Page 3

WOLSELEY IN SOUTH AFRICA.

Force of events in Zuluhmd (writes MiArchibald Forbes) sent Wolseley thither in the early summei of 1879. The War Office, wit 1 ; the con.itry at its b;ick, sent him. The Horse Guards were hostilely obstructive. Armed with authority from the S-.-cretary of State, Wolseley entered, the Pall Mall sanctum where the Com-mander-in-chief rules. Tint Koyal personage had gone to the Derby, and nothing could be done in his absence. ' But 1 want to start the day after to-morrow,' said Wolseley to the locum tenens, ' and wlut I want must be done.' And donu' it was by sheer force of Wolseley's strong ! will. lie had got no further than Port Durnford when Uluudi was fought by Lord Chelmsford,. I was the first man from the latter force to reach Wolseley after that victory. He had introduced a new tone into the troops about him. He had abolished laagers, and had exorcised +htt demon of ' funk' that had hold such pernicious sway ever since Isandula. ' I don't understand," he had said, ' that British soldiers in close order, with rifles in their hand, and bayonets on those rifles, cannot give n good account of any number of black men that may choose to assail them " This quiet but buoyant utterance, had the effect as of a veritable revelation. The scales of nervousness fall from every eye ; the morale came back to men who were not cowards, but who had been under a-i ugly, gloomy spell. After Ulimdi there wai no more fighting to speak of in Zululand. Wolseley put masters there on some sort of a basis after the capture of Cetewayo ; and then went on to arrange matters with the Boers, They were sullen and disaffected. Gathering after gathering they held, each one of which threatened to eventuate in an e*meute. But at each when the Boers awoke in the morning of th« day of conference, they found that on each side of the assemblage, no matter howremote it might be, Wolseley had contrived to station a British regiment, at the sight of which display of quiet strength the Dutchmen sulleuly inspanned and trekked homeward. To his gallant subordinate, Baker Russell, Wolseley, with a kindly consideration, gave the duty and the honor of taking Tekukioni's stronghold by itorm ; he himself being present only as a spectator. When he was recalled he warned the Home authorities that the apparent ca'm in the Transvaal was delusive, and cautioned the'ti against diminishing our force in that region. But economy orer-rode his wise warning, with the outcome all know of