Buller Stories.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume II, Issue 106, 8 February 1900, Page 2

Buller Stories.

We have been accustomed of late to all kinds of stoiies concerning Sir Eedvers Buller, his coolness and caution, his dash and aleitness, but it is curious to find that the officer whom Mr Archibald Forbes described as " a, stern - tempered, ruthless, saturnine man, with the gift of grim silence not less than a gift of curt, forcible expression on occasion," is really a great lover of conversation. His liking for a good dinner and its subsequent talk was fully illustrated during the week of his departure for South Africa, in | spite of the great demands upon" his time and attention. Tims the day before he sailed, he lunched with one friend and dined with another, and afterwards stopped up until half-past one in the morning at the Beefsteak Club. But he is in love with books as well as with the table. He has taken with him to South Africa, not only a small library of old favourites, but five pounds' worth of new books. It is also characteristic of the era of scientific „ warfare that Sir Redvers took with him for his own special use a shorthand typewriting clerk and a Remington. Indeed, the war has brought a boom in. typewriters and other machines, and - more than a score have been sent -

to the fioni. The^ynewiiter t^ ihe place cf the oM pu.v ; which. v.scd 1c pi'-'il- " ; " -' ' ' , and was a clumsy and *-' " > ' military impedimenta. An enjoj.iolo story, which has no special benung on the present position, is told of a %o.v i ige made by Sir Beavers Bullor to Canada a regiment of soldiers. Oft .ho entrance to the St. Latnenco lavei the vessel was enveloped -,n fogs and ° naU t7nriner nndSirlledv.s shipwrecked maiinei. , B i W ent ashore m a bo.t^ .ko stance. TThen he annod c fo«,a .. N o"Bheßnid,»flie supplies be to th ey who'msh^ioekeo, not tar such \voul" "J3utthisisaGoveinmc.nl a p't and we are servants of the " Can't help it . youni not .hip^eked! Now Si Iledversßulkr thought he recogLa the intonation of the woman B iastxeo.arl.soheatonee-u^tl Corniflh accent, and said : hat not for dear old One and All, and I a Buller*" "What I be yew from Cornwall, en' a Bullet? Take everything there is in the place -you m Lart. welcome !" The Buti>h comzander m^atal is e^idently an accomphshed forager.