A NEW ZEALANDER WOUNDED.

Otago Witness, Issue 2490, 4 December 1901, Page 31

A NEW ZEALANDER WOUNDED.

Mr J. Howe, assistant machinist in the Daily Times Office, has received the following communication from his Excellency thte Governor: — "Regret to inform you that George Henry Eowe, of the Waldrom Scouts, was dangerously wounded near Platrand on the 12th November. He is now in hospital, suffering from gunshot wounds in the right arm, shoulder, and eye, the sight of which is gone. He is progressing satisfactorily." The young man proceeded to South Africa some time after the war broke out, and served for six months in one of the irregular mounted corps. He then paid a visit to the Home country, but returned to South Africa and joined the Waldrom Scouts-. The young man appears to have "been very- badly wounded, and the loss of the sight of one eye is a decided misfortune.

• A Wellington telegTam says that a cablegram received by tlie Governnlent from Capetown states that Sergeant Potter, who ■was reported the othe- day as dangerously ill, is now improving. The Wanganui correspondent of the New Zealand Times states that an impressive ceremony took place at the Collegiate School Chapel oo Sunday, when Bishop '"Wallis unveiled the window erected by old iboys in memory of their old school fellows ■who have fallen at the front. The window is of simple design, being a red cross on blue ground, with the motto, r ' In hoc signo vinees," and has been placed over the altar. The names of those whom the window commemorates are to be placed underneath, and are as follow: — Leslie Seton Melville, Walter Douglas Armstrong, and Campbell Parkinson. A Wellington message states : Lieutenant Trotter, of Auckland, and Lieutenant Stewart, of Napier, returned from South Africa by the s.s. Rimutaka. A Wellington telegram says that Captain Seddon, son of the Premier, was entertained at a social on Thursday evening, and presented with a 'dressing case by the Clyde quay branoh of the Liberal and Labour Federation.

Sergeant Duncan, of the Otago section of the sixth contingent, who returned to the colony "by the Delphic the other day, invalided home, leaves again for the front by the Damascus from Sydney next^ month. Trooper C. W. Roffe is returning to the front by the Damascus this month, and not Sergeant Duncan, as the latter is still with the Dunedin section of the Sixth in South Africa.