GENERAL BULLER.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 13 June 1913, Page 4

GENERAL BULLER.

Nevf ZealaudorH who served in tUte Boer War will be interested in a passage in Field-Marshal WolseJey's "Story of a. Soldier's Life/' written in 1908, concerning Genei-al Boiler. Wolseior mites of the Red River expedition of 1870; "All the offioers witli the expeditionary fore© sO° n became expert in making portages and in mending their boats, no on© more so than my very able friend and valued comrade, 1 Redvera B-uller. He was a first-rate axeman, and I think be was the only man with us of any rank who could carry a- 1001b barrel of pork over a portage on his back. He oould Tiend a boat and have he.;' back in the water while many under similar circumstances would have been making up their mind 8 what to do. Full of resource, and personally absolutely fearless, those serving under him always trusted him fully. He afterwards served as my chief of staff in t.he expedition sent too late to try and relieve- Gordon, in Khartoum."*' In oho same book, by the way. we learn that .when Wolseiey went, to Canada in 1861 the troopship was nominally convoyed by the Orpheus, the QueenV ship, that was wrecked two years later on the Man titan bar.