News, Notes and Cuttings.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 209, 3 September 1900, Page 5

News, Notes and Cuttings.

(VIA ENGLAND,

THE MYTHICAL GREENER

One of the unsolved mysteries produced by the war in South Africa is that concerning the whereabouts of ex-Sergt.-M-jor Greener. "This übiquitous person has been reported in' various sensational roles. He was said to have been captured by Lord Methuen at the Modeler River, after he had taught the Boers, the •gentle art of-trench making, for which Service the Transvaalers had paid him handsomely,. ' - ~ Lord Methuen had, according to the cables, sent him in chains to Capetown, where he was shot by order of court-martial ; Lord. Roberts had condoned Greener's alleged imlrtar;£ fences — defalcations and desertion and had utilised him as a spy against h?s erstwhile Transvaal employers ; and -Sally the transport Monteagle nnd brought him home in close con55ement. ff _creening.him from his for--s_?Ss_&d* on board for fear of the bodily harm they might do the alleged • trNow comes Greener's father are+„Wo honest old man, who lives •Pc? on et S? of Norfolk, and says |s^«_.-a*3_. ot the J3oe ° inst than sinning ; LTthe War Office could easily have that the vv ar Aldershot balarrested him aftert &e Sw"£ ?n'London yover two months SSStSn^ick occurs the passage :-*- v . half the rei^g?^o.dS^S my comrades in tbe Engineers." War Office confirms xne + n-f the elder Greener. Itie ex ments ot tne erne b cap-sergeant-major has a«tner turfd from the Boers shot^s a £» , employed as a spy, nor sent norn trial. ■ *--, ■