"THE DEATHLESS SEVENTH."

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 85, 11 April 1902, Page 2

"THE DEATHLESS SEVENTH."

THE BQTHASBERG ENGAGEMENT (Prom our Special Correspondent.) DUNEDIN, Thi* Day. You will have received by the San Francisco mail full particulars of the Seventh's tussle at Bothasbercr with De Wet, Sergt. Chas, Hinifie, of Tenmkfe, an ex-Pnnehio boy, in a letter to his pea! pie concludes a lengthy account of the eneagementa3 follows ; — In the morning I found that out of the ninety -two men the left wing of the Seventh, on whom the attack fell only twenty-fouT were not hit, Twenty-three were killed and forty-five were wounded. 1 was told by those who saw the scene of the nght in the morning that it was a fearful sight. Dead New Zealanders, Boers, and horses lay all o-er the place. Empty cartridges were there in hundred. We shot seventy of their horses. Fifteen dead Boers and six wounded lay on Iha ground, and thirty-five more dead bodies were found in a stone croU near by. The evening's 'casualties were 60 killed and 00 wonaded and several waggons, carte and 12,000 cattle, and hundreds of horsed were captured next day. You will be as pleased as myself to hear that I hay« been recommended for the distinguiohed service medal for the part T took in the affair. Colonels Oarralt, White and Por WhlTS B"*'8 "*'- 70 ?-,. 11 * 07er o« losses, When they vrewed the scene of the fight ftl»W*[(!d«nel White exclaimed criZ ?°2 L They are all men " When Colonel Porter returned to camo he Jay on his bed an* wept. Colonel Garrett and Colonel White are erecting monuments at their own expense over the grareß of the fallen. Lord Kitchener called a special parade of the Seventh and spoke about the gallant stand they bad made and among other things said they were a credit to tb» British Army and he was glad in a way that ( he Boer attack had fallen on them, "We shall be out of Africa before the 10th of May."