War Items.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume II, Issue 155, 29 May 1900, Page 3

War Items.

Tommy Ukmn (says Sir Samuel Scoit, 1.V.) is i mil. vol. Ibxw him playing cards? undo" life, and roaring with laughter when the shells around biin didn't bu»v>fc. When th 3 fat me r J>oer c ; went oat + ,o fight the British, I'Jr [>nnot !>vp i leigh. write?, they left then* women and children at home, confident fcha*; the BnfeUh would nofc loucn tboh farms. Tommy Atfr'ns laughs at his .lancrois and haulihips. but he would not i>e if ho did not grumbJo as wjII. From his cam p ! near (h^span an infantryman, thus briery sums ip what he culls the advantages of active »ei\ice :—(1): — (1) No money ; (2) no beer tor tho:>o who want it; (8) no tobacco ; (4.) no grub ; (Y| no sugar or mi'k ; (G) no be*- 1 ; (7) no home ; (8) no nothing. The Rev E. J. Hirdy, Army chaplain, teiis a quaint story ot the boys ot a cavalry regiment "who hid boen leading the story of little trumpeter Shurlock at Elsindsla-igto. I »>niin,<x fno nexi catech. sin lesson, ' ish '"L<M'dy a-ked one of them what \ w his lufcy to iris nci^hbinr, | a'ldaig "riupp)i«»he be a Boer ? " j The boy rap'ied, solemnly but ! iirmly, " To sh.iofc him, sir." 1 Geneinl Keil} -Kenny remarked to Mr Bennec Burleigh, tho othor day, " I have bean woefully un- ' d^coived. in muiy things in thirf campaign. Mou [ had thought weiv splendid fallows, wh^ would have goue anywhere and done anything, have betrayed themselves lha rankest fcauds, and those I had expected little from have don« gieafc things. War gives you the measure at men in au astonishing way." In one of the Lady.-,mith sorties, relates a Daily Telegraph eoi'roapon'leu'i, Co]onai Metcait called to Oi.pHin P.iley r o bring his compauy in a particalar direction. As before, ihe Boers took up the cry, anil shouts of " Capfcaia Paloy, sir, this \va-y wish jrour company ! " came «n perfect English. Poor Paley le 3 his men toward the voice and arrived at the edge of a donga filled with P<oers, who poured a volley into tb.«s holwioss company. Lord Eioberfcs has called the afcter'cion of the War Office to tfr» wretched boots provided lot 1 thfe soldiers, and if following exW.**is to be reliecl upon, " Bobs" hoS not complained without caase :— "i am wearing a pair of troas^.j, which I nnde out of an old fti . spsk (writPH an infantryman l'r"u Maple L^af Camp), so you cm u 1 wo arc ruugbing it. Wo a^s i debachment of Roberts' Fi>.n.> Oolrmn, and we have to m^< perhaps fifteen or twenty i;uio>; with bits oi wood strapped to bare feet. liovv T doed that au i you, oh ?M? M The London correspondent of >!i ■ Manchester Guardian says th i arrangoaionts have been made for the temporary continuance of Lord Wokeley in tne office of Oouiuid,nu-er-in-chief boyond Novembac 1. Or coui'o s Lord Wolseley's period oi oi'iico will oxpiro on that day, bat j*" is not, known whether Lord Bobect:-—-whose snecossion to the position is inevitable — will then have arrived in England. Lord .Roberts has, it* iaafc, m fde known to the Govsrjrnont, and his resolution is :tP( ( r ivca of, that he prefers to remain m ;6ou h Afiica until his part in to 3 resefcc.'emjnt of the two Snates ha£ bben go upieted. Id » Jeitor in the Daily Mail, r \Jr Jalian i ? aiph gives some mterestirj * p'H'fciculars about Mv and Mr-; Cronje. Cronje is described as „i ! thwarted general, but to the wid<> ■ awaka and well-informed Briti<-'< o.iieors, who are not nnder th > severe scl of misguidod censorship, he presented the appe-irauco oi u typiedsquafe Sigdve I b <ick hiidi'd* •', nj'okie^i 1 Boec. The writer "q sons' to siy that, bsoan-iB of our previo. s ill-success, or because of tho^e politics which be^at us but do n u hinder the Boers in warLxe, v hive treated this bush-whue'vu^v chfertain as if he were aaofcb'c Napoleon. We "brought; him a. -. his wife in a Cape cart, drawn I. six ar cillery horses, to the Mo 'd^ River fco-day. His belongings -wv. - in a sack, His wife's wardrobe w ■ in a pillow case, proved to be a <i'R dress comma&dfcered, from ':+JLS Sarah "VV^isoa,