War Items.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 11, 26 June 1900, Page 3

War Items.

Writing to bis ,t;{o, Lionienanfc K. Banian, of Jf uaing *,!^a'« Scouts, Conaetvativo candidate for Lin Torquay division, says : '• Oug iiiiojojl;m s ovoni took nlaco me imp. A parcel _ arrivod £or a nan who h?^ lafb tbo co-ps ; so n va3 cic-ciJ.. T fchafe the oonlonts sh<">ufa )>e sold by I wife. Th^ j>a3ko(;. c'.^'tu.iued tT« r o i pa 1 ro of vvooli^u rrc^o, a ccka of i P^a^'s Ofdtiiai'y soap, i»ni] t'-vo oc three "'-aqgi comprt-sSv-d vpgoLi.blo packets. The socks bi'o'Jgbt ICj 8J a pair, iheooxp iOt; cuid Lh>- vogtsiabie-t 9d 6d a ptioi'^E, r,he roial obiameil for t;ho gooda, Aviaoh oould. 'oo biughiin !CQglf>nJ for 5.5, wr^ £A 12s ! This will sbow th > valutj of the n peessfuies of lilo on fcho TeJdi !"' A curious report has i'cachd.l Lorenao Marquez rapanling feho British guns captured at, Uolsnso It is stated that they wore ovoih'niled on then- arrival at Pretoria by French aud German experts, who condemned bhe gnus as obsolete, and reported thas they were of n type 13 years old. The rifling of the gaixS, according to theif sfcauetusni;, was also worn aLiiost entire 1 } out. The exports consider that, these defects were the reasons for Colonel Long's rashness in rushing the guns within range of the Boer rifioa, as he was anxious to conceal the i'acfc that his guns were quite oucclassod by the Koc-r artillery.