"Banjo" Paterson.

Feilding Star, Volume XXII, Issue 135, 7 December 1900, Page 2

"Banjo" Paterson.

Mr A. B. Paterson needed little introduction in any part of the new Commonwealth, and he is almost as well known all over New Zealand. The son of a squatter in the northern Murrambidgee district of New South Wales, Paterson bep-an his career as a lawyer; and it is because he was a member of ft legal firm in Sydney that he wrote over the signature of '<BanJQ M (the name of a horse he owned), tb[e norn de p'ume by which he is generally known. In his native colony Paterson, who is a great society man, has distinguished himself as a fearless steeplechase rider, a golfer, and polo player, a poet, a war correspondent, and more recently as a lecturer. His first appearance in Feilding will take place in the Assembly Booms on Tuesday evening ne;it, when the man who saw so much of what everybody has been talking and reading about for the last twelve months, will recount some of the moving accidents by flood and field which marked the advance of the British and Colonial forces from Capetown to Pretoria. The plan of, reserved seats will be opened at Car'thew's to-morrow mora^ ing. .