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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 234, 26 July 1902, Page 3

Colonel Porter, who lia3 just arrived from South Africa, where he saw a great deal of hard service, and where he greatly fii»t;n«uifhed himself, notable in the memorable defence of Bothasburg, was (saya the London correspondent of the Press) a very noticeable and muchnoticed figure at Mr and Mrs Eeeve's Reception on Monday evening. As he Wklked about in uniform his splendid proportions made him easily to be picked out anywhere, especially when he was accompanied by his uo less finelyproportioned daughter, Mrs Howie, the charming contralto singer. Colonel Porter did not care to sp«ak muoh of his own part in the late war. In. reply to a query on my part, he said, " Oh, no,, he had not been wounded." But Qn my pressing the question it turned out that he had been hit no fewer thin five times by Boer bullets, one of which broke a bone in his fooN He is in charge of the New Zealand Contingent camped at Muswell Hill. Ho has been «' favourably noticed " in one of Lord Ki ohener's later do-patches, and h»s had the rank of Brigadier-General conferred upon him in recognition of his services. Sold, and Sorvo Him Right—Ho: Before proposing', Miss Ethel, I wish to know it you have anything in the bank. Sin : Ynrt, Mr Pojrmau, 1 have a lovor there. He is the cashier, and we are to uuury next wook.