A COLUMN FOR RHODESIA

Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 68, 21 March 1900, Page 5

A COLUMN FOR RHODESIA

GENERAL CARRINGTON'S

COMMAND

LONDON, March 20.

It is reported that Major-General -Sir Frederick Carrington forms a field force of five thousand men to protect lihodesin.

The column will, it is said, include 2500 Australian Bushmen.

[Major-General Sir Frederick Carrington is just the right man for work of this class. He has been for twentyfive years prominently connected with the 'British forces in that part of the Dark Continent, and the troop which he founded in 1877 in Griqualand still bears the name of. "Carrington's Horse." Two years before the founding-, of that corps he was hard at work in South Africa organising and commanding a troop of mounted infantry for the diamond fields, and in the Kaffir Avar of, 1577 he rendered notable service in the Transkei district. Two years later he took a prominent part in the Sekukuni campaign, and was aeain to the fore in the Basiito difficulties of 1881, and in Sir Charles Warren's Bechuanaland expedition three years later. He commanded the Bechuanaland border police for five years, from 1888, and at, the end of that time was promoted to the rank of Major-General, with the appointment of Military Adviser to the Governor 0, Cape Colony. When the disturbances in Rhodesia assumed a serious aspect in the early-part of 189G it «;as at once felt that he was the most «fl*n™» *?» to deal with them, and he earned Ihe gratitude of his countrymen by the sound judgment and military skill with which he met the venous insurgent outbreaks wlreh•• followed ihe Matabele rising. Sir TrecTerckCarrington was born in August, 1844, the son of a Gloucester country gentleman, and received the dignity of Lv.k.M.W thirteen years ago.]