THE WAIKATO CAMPAIGN

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3168, 15 April 1879, Page 2

THE WAIKATO CAMPAIGN

Our Volunteers at the Froat.

The Auckland Star gives the following account of the morementa at the review;—•

The Waikato Cavalry emerged from ihe trees, and daßhed on the Iv fan try, but were received by a withering fire from ti»»wka«Jiii^*^werab^Ua«joff m»ml the cheerß of the multitude of spectator!. The Than^jflen^iew,- cpt akjfniUbers, a"Aa *>hsfc btttle was kept up: the gallantry was exhibited. Captain Bunciiman nnd Lieuts. Eutherford, ]fisner,~aiHr iWitKeralW. pefforminf; v^l#Qjißifei.tsT atr ihe head of thai* ftroapi.fi The Scottifhjf behaved as s^lendi3)jf c ,as x they^ looked, ia were betler ihitt the T^ttlte»«; < The Engineers took the field ia excellent style. [The tf ftta? 'WfiPauSMMfm »mSD%>t |the enemy, and showed nimbleness of . foot.' -The Warali were^ •wifaii*^ jabiy active in theft'! movement!, while the, native. Jorce went heart and soul mto the fi^ht; and bl.«d iw.y -with gneal^uer^y^^Xhe^jEaJOLpj^t^pXci^^ flashing of swords, discaargeoti^Elei, kod cheers of,tMfiWim|tibp|_?aried eotlumes of the welfdiiofplm^d Thames men with the gallopin* and trotting of Cavalry, the Thatres /WluntWTf fhtering tne latter's performance. : Captain MoFheraoa-waf acting Brigade Major; Crptain Sehofield and Lieutenant Whilake* were aidasie oaoipi to Gplonpl; j Lyons. Orderlies: . Kennedy, of the Thames Sco-twh; Girporal Ti Hont and trooper Burton, of the Cavalry; Cavalry Instructor Cirley, la^ Sergeant-Major in Her Majesty's Twentieth Hassan, filled new.ppdintmentinlateSwgiantftww's place. ;■ . ■■• f f i Colonel Lyon complimented the men upon tha precision df the aoveiMlitl apd; their soldierlike bearing. The evening jset in wet and : ?iMw;«gana#arr tged for had to be postponed. I s'irrrejJT -"vJ^ ■■!£■■'*^ J-^'i^i'ttiS ix-vw 'ar.H ; [By Tblbgbaph.J i [-PBOM OVS SPIOIiX WHTABT IXPOJOn.] 1 no saarjJKifJ o5 c? J.'Mjiii^civqr'gi him ! AucKtiKD, This day, ; ,»n^l torn oil* 1 The ti'ain was behind time in leaving Hamilfdn,-aM it was^B.3o o'clock by !the time we reached Auckland. After s breakfast and on to the Botomabanl§ Iwliici leftihe JidiixLat J.olclook._lli«L prospects of a pleasant trip home are anything tmt encbura X iu X , ifcat tifefMlfl »o help for ife-ftifmany^fjU^Aad to gei [back to r our.,woirk,; rom %hioiL we hare been away longer than it firtt ekptfeted. .

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