War Items.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 15, 5 July 1900, Page 3

War Items.

'•Leavey" from Mr Bowlhy's i diary in South Atiica contain the following : — On February 28th, ho was at l)e Aar, while the train bearing the captured Oronje pa^ed through, and then he went on to Modder. He says Ruuyard Kipling was in the train the last trip it made, and Dr Boswell had a pioco of shell from" Moddor which he intended to torn into an inkpot, whereupon Mi Kipling was moved to w>-ii,e the following lines on the shell : Beyond the trenches' outer brink I dung my murage from afar, And now I aevre to hold the ink Whilst men write lies about the war. General Jameson, speaking of the nursos who wenicmt to South' Africa,^ said :—" In addition chore wore n.i) nn'rses, and Canada, Australia ami New Zealand, as well as South Africa, had nobly responded to the call for skilled nur^os. Their oervices were invaluable. The only/iff in the lute whs due to the diilicultiea created by the untrained ladies who, no doubt with the best intentions, had shown want of discretion and had hampered «nd hindered the means taken tor the rostoiation to health of the sick and wounded." Thn matter has been pitnily put into a nonsense rhyme by a local poet : Theie was a young maul from North Uerwick Whof-o conduc. wai very hj-steiic. She followed the guns, Arui rlifltributed bun<3 To the men wbo were down with enteric. Just before tho Anstraliu'is left Capetown a prominent Victorian resident at Capo town wrote to Sir A. Milnor, calling attention to thei destitute, ragged condition, and the harsh treatment and nuffering through delays in Bending home a large number of sick and wounded Australians and New Zealanders at Maitiand Camp. He said that if the condition of the man was known in Australasia it would bring about a big reaction against volunteering for Jiutvire campaigns. Sir A. Milner took immediate steps to remedy the complaints. Thousands are down with fever in the Yarioae camps.