A Much-travelled Steed.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 294, 11 December 1902, Page 1

A Much-travelled Steed.

One horse oufc of 6000 odd which left New Zealand for South Africa

has returned to these shores. The animal came back to Wellington by the Papanui on aturday. His career has been an historic and eventful one. Brought into the camp of the Fourth Contingent at Newtown Park, he fell into the hands of Lieutenant Collins, son of Lieutenant Colonel Collins, of WelItf ; The horse was first shipped

„ . Jfc /lin, and thence to Beira by the t’ vpship Cymric. From Beira he \v to Marandellas ; From Marantio Has, a twenty six days’ journey to Bulawayo; from Bulawayo to Fort Tali; from Fort Tuli back to Bulawayo; and from Bulawayo to Mafeking. There he remained nntil the Ottoshoop engagement. There Lieutenant Collins left his charger at the bottom of a kopje, while he climbed to the top to receive the wound which stopped his fighting, and that was the last he saw of the famous che taut in South Africa. The horse then passed into the hands of Sergt.-Major Poole—who was promoted to be a lieutenant—and remained in the latter’s hands until the Fourth left South Africa. Then Colonel Porter came along with the Seventh, and I took charge of him. The horse carried the heavy-weight colonel about for some months, and the latter decided that he should be sent to England, to be his charger in the Coronation procession. The horse was forwarded to England, but instead of going to London was consigned by mistake to Colonel Porter, of the Dragoon Guards, Colchester, And now he has returned to Wellington, and is doing a term of quarantine probation on Somes Island.