War Items.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume II, Issue 154, 26 May 1900, Page 3

War Items.

I Captain John Rosa, who lesigned from the Thirc? New ZoaUmd Contingent during the voyage to South Africa, is now serving as a private in tbe Diamond Fields Horse. Secret "instructions were afe one ,time issued to solders in Capetown, to sleep under aim- and carry constantly 100 rounds of ammunition, so as to be in msbaat readiness for a< lisißg q( the rebol Cape DufccL.. The New York Journal of April 8 printed a dusuateh, dated from Bushman's Kop, in- wh4eh it was stated that the'Capfca'in' Beichmann, who is said to have commanded the Boers at Koorn Spruit, m Captain Charles rfceienmann, an officer in che United Scales Army, who is with the Boers as American Military 'Attache. The war has proved prolific of grim humour. At the storming of Piefcer's Hill, two wounded soldiery i were seen wriggling down — one on his hands and knees, the other on his back, jit rained heavily at intervals all day, and the position of the two men was very affecting, but the Boers maintained a steady fire down the slopes, and it was, impossible to -assist -the wounded." At five in the evening cno nian reached the British trenches, and the other was brought in at night. One .aaked to* a cigarette, and the other, who was .wounded in seven places, said he had stopped a whole valley himself. One of the Dublin-?, who w.ts shot through the lungs, was askedjif he would like anything. He replied 'that he would like a little breath. \A touching passage is contained in a letter to his friend in Berlin fro ( m a German serving in a Boon ambulance corps. Describing life in the hospital at Colesburg the writer says : "Ac present we hava only ten wounded in the hospital, amongst them a. colonel of the Ne.v South Wales Lancers and a gigantic sergeant, qf the Royal Horse Guardp. The.lattQr is paralysed by r a shot in. the intestines, and. -hus state is hope- [ Jess* Besides, this, 'Oar Baby " in in the hospital — a young fellow scarcely twenty, from London, whohad almost .bled to death when they brought him in, bat is now quite well again. To-night, ,at one •o'clock,, I>was on djaty in the Dutch Prayerhou^e, which .is our hospital. Aju Englishman .began, in big dreams, to sing .quite softly, first a soldier's song, then * Rule Btitannia,' and finally, .quite softly, that sweet song, ' Home, Sweet Home.' " The German writer ands : " I can^ tell you how I felt. 1 '

..Mrs Furat : " I -just know if I'd di,a he'd iparry again and fprget me." tylva Secbonde : "My dear, i{ there is anything that would make him remember • -you kindly, it would b^ tqarrying aga'n." 11 She promised to be a .sis tor ip me." " Yes." ♦' Then she married a man .from, England and I haven't seen her for twenty, yeara." " But how could you have, the hear,]; to' hang a "man for stealing a ten-dollar horse ?" asked the tourist. " Fer two reasons," Rubberneck Bill explai&ed. " ,The.y wasn't pothin' else to hang him fer, an' they wasn't nobody else handy^to^hang." They had «loped and returned for th.c p4rentAl blessing. .•"Father," the beautiful young woman said, •" we are, sorry for-wha>, 4ve,havo»dpne.' "WilLyou^-" ".Then," the stern old, map * interrupted, " why don't you go to tba x fawyor around the corner ? I'm np divorce c^batt." - ' ' \ " Cornelia : fi Nowth*t we're engaged, Orlando, I- think I ought to tell y op, great-grandpa^ didajear'^. impx # l9OQmentV' '\ Orlando,: _ " 01?, that's jaotliing^ I!ve done fltve myself." ', -; - blynkei: V^ell, what Aid. old BolHoit ,B*l i*r>«i;, you proposed .to/m^rrj;^ 'daughter? v -, -* - ' ' l , • "- -.-/, „ ' t ,-Ai»d alhidejl^/,t|ie ifl&tter of dowry, old man! ' i:.- •? ,^yafe rS?.?ef m£j,&eßt> , 1 / _2 -«■ yj/^-C' '- - ■- ~ r -~--:v