FIFTY YEARS AGO.
ANECDOTE OF RANGIRIRI,
gO I,I)IER'S COURAGEOUS ACT.
(From the M-SMB of July 18, 1864.) |feAjICST-th© many stories that go the, - nd 0 th© soldier's tent when the inMtes are enjoying a smoke and a gossip, '/.'no of a circumstance which occurred * tne attack upon Rangiriri. The 8 eral with his usual indifference *° pf tiger' as standing at a short distance ■■'( in the pa, while 10 attack was going >• „ with the bullets whistling round hiL" 01 thick as hail. One native in particular • had been seen to take soveral deliberate slots fc t 10 £ €nera '> an as 800n as na '\jl was delivered, to drop behind the parapet- Seeing this, a soldier of the Ml crept up close under the parapet, a d lis soon as the Maori showed himself ,Jo jumped tip, and, bayoneting him, ' hot his companion with his rifle, and then rushed back with a cheer and an Irish yell. The general, it is said, praised the man, awl said a few of those words *Jich are dearer to a brave soldier than These little stories will form indances of British valour as long as New island is a country inhabited by Britons, j
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15663, 17 July 1914, Page 11
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