CASUALTIES AMONGST NEW ZEALANDERS.
London. July 27. The following members of the Seventh New Zealand Contingent were wounded atVereening, on the .Vaal river, south Johannesburg : — Lieutenant Caiter (slighly); Privates G. W. Callaway ana Andrew Peterson (severely). Sergeant Buckingham (Victoria) was killed at Rhenoster Kop.
Speaking at Eangiora on Wednesday, Sergeant Strong said that amongst the men the work of General Buller was, perhaps, the most highly thought of. General French had done good work from first to last, but had been favoured by circumstances more than some of the others. Lord Methuen was a hardworking, painstaking man, never asking the men to do what he would not do himself, and frequently joining his infantry on the march. Of Lord Kitchener the speaker had a bad impression at first, but that had been completely removed, and the Commander-m-Chief in South Africa was a really great soldier, and far .more-humane than most people thought him. Having been in the hospitals at Mafeking and Kiniberley, Sergeant Strong waTab'le to""' testify to the good work done by the doctors and nurses in those places. The mimsters of the various denominations also did all they could for the wounded in the hospital.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7067, 29 July 1901, Page 2
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