MR ARTHUR DOBSON’S DEATH.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LII, Issue 5826, 28 October 1879, Page 3

MR ARTHUR DOBSON’S DEATH.

The Hobart Town Mercury pres some particulars about the fate of Mr Arthur Dobson: —We published a short time ago some extracts from the letters of the late Mr Arthur Dobson, who fell in the Zulu war. In answer to many.inquiries Which have since been made by bu friends for further details concerning him,.* we -are enabled to publish the following information. That gallant officer/ LieutenantrOolonel Duller, whose name must be familiar to all who have followed the events of the Zulu war, has, with the kindest thoughtfulness, written the following letter to one of Mr ‘ Dobson’s family. Dating from> Flying Column, Zululand, June 15,1879, he "says:—"A post has just come in bringing me your letter to your brother Arthur. ■ I did not notice the subscription on the envelope till I had opened it. Having opened it, X glanced at it, and thought yon would like to hear the particulars of your poor brother’s death. At the end of March the Lieutenant-General Commanding, having to take in a large convoy to! relieve the garrison of Ekowe in the South, ordered General Wood to make diversions in the North of!the theatre of operations. General Wood accordingly decided to commence a series of offensive movements, which culminated on March 28 in an attack upon Zlobane Mount, a natural fortress of great strength about twenty miles distant from our then camp. The mounted men only were employed, and wb assaulted the position at early dawn, carrying it brilliantly. Once on the top, we found that, difficult to get up, it was far more difficult to get down, and our descent was moreover rendered all the more difficult by the knowledge that a large Zulu army was close at hand, marching to the assistance of those we had attacked. I covered the descent of the mountain With some of my best men, amongthemyour brother. The Zulus dosed in on our rear guard, and your brother was among those who fell, and is of tho many friends 1 lost on that day among those I regret most. He had been just seven months with me. I never had occasion to speak anything but commendation to him. Brave, courteous, and obliging, ho was "ambaerMunteer, and' I deeply sympathise with you in' his lots.—l am, dear sir, yours faithfully, Bed.. Duller, lieutenant Colonel 60th Bines." "We are also informed Unit a letter! received from - Lieutenant and Paymaster 1 Hutton* of- the Ikoariar laght Hanoi yays thnt Mr Dobson met his deathby a gunshotwound and disdiiytemtasieously.