NEWS OF THE WAR.

Evening Post, Volume LX, Issue 103, 29 October 1900, Page 6

NEWS OF THE WAR.

* TROOPER RYAN'S RECEPTION AT TAWA FLAT. Trooper D. . Ryan, of' our First Contingent, son of Mr. Denis Ryan, J.P., of TaAva Flat, was on Saturday given a hearty reception home by th<?' people of district. The croAvd assembled at the Porirua. station, headed by the 1 Pahautanui Band, and escorted the invalided trooper to tins local hall. Here Mr. W. H. Field, "M.H.R., took the chair, and an address of welcome was read by Mr. D. Hogarty,' followed by congratulatory speeches by the Hon. T. Y. Duncan (Minister of Lands), the Chairman, and the guest's father. After the trooper had replied, a procession Avas formed, including a detachment of the Heretaunga Mounted Rifles , and the Johnsonville School Cadets, and marched to the Tawa Flat school'hous'&. Tho procession was a long one, and included people from all parts of the district, Mr. Gco. Thompson acting as "marshal. Mr. Sanson was Secretary of the Committee that organised the "social" which, in the evening, concluded the festivities. Lieutenant Cuthbertson, writing from Pretoria, says that provisions Avere at ridiculous prices m Pretoria on the 23rd August. For instance, butter (bad) was gelling at 6s 6d per lb, ,and good butter could not be got under 17s 6d lb ; small onions cost Is each, and even a glass of whisky cost Is 6d.jh Some people have queer ways of show ing their hero worship. The Wanganui Herald, commenting on this feeling, says that the registration of names Avith an official not a hundred miles from Wanga- , nui suggests that birth of the little ones and their nomenclature will in time to come bring back recollections of the present Transvaal War, For instance, we have amongst the males thus registered a Kitchener, two lans, four Hectors, one Redvers, one White, two Roberts, tAvo Winstons, two Hector M'Donaids, one PoAvell, two Badens, one Baden Powell, one Mafeking, one Sjanonsy one Pretoria, and one Rundle.