WERE THE NEW ZEALANDRS THERE?

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 11279, 21 May 1902, Page 7

WERE THE NEW ZEALANDRS THERE?

Oa Saturday a telegram "from New Plymouth stated that Mrs Davies had received a-cablegram from Colonel Davies (Eighth Contingent),' dated' Vryberg, as follows: — "All well. Have just finished -uecessful drive. Have been appointed to command of a column.'' This message is undated, but being sent from Vryburg, "the drive*' to which Colonel Davies refers would seem to be identified with that reported by Reuters Capetown correspondent yesterday. If it prove true, as stated, that fehis movement has resulted in the capture of "400 prisoner?, including 100 -rebels, then our Eighth and Ninth Contingents apparently had a fine opportunity to achieve distinction at the* beginning of their campaign, and "got there." The "Post" remarks that apparently this capture is not of very recent date, that is if Colonet Davies took part in it, because that officer was at Durban on Saturday, and from Vryburg to.Durban the distance is about 600 miles—thA first stage of 160 miles bedng across country until tihe first railway station is reached at Klerksdorp. If then Colonel Davies was at Durban on Saturday, after assisting* to capture 400 Boers at Vryburg, the incident must have closed several days ago, and it is somewhat remarkable that tlie news has been so long delayed, and that even now we _.aye only" the bare announcement. What was the Premier about that ha did not send us half a column of the narrative of Colonel Davies?