THE YEOMANRY AT TAFELKOP.

Otago Witness, Issue 2509, 16 April 1902, Page 46

THE YEOMANRY AT TAFELKOP.

The Times publishes a letter written by an officer describing the action at Tafelkop and praising highly the work of the gunners and the Yeoma-nry : — "When iJamant 6aw there was no chance of saving the guns he told him to get the limbers away. This he did, though he had a bullet in his stomach, with the assistance of one 91st man ajid some of the drivers. One driver took a limber with his six horses out of fire alone, though hit twice So both limbers were saved, Mid the gun horses being got away the Boer 3 could not take the guns or ammunition The pom-pom horses were all shot, *>o they could not get that far before I got in at them and made them drop it, and the Mnxim also they dropped. So they took nothing away, not eveu disarming all the men The gunnerb were piled up on their guns as they fell, but coe expects the artillery to do well in a reverse. " The officer conclude* : " What pleased me. and I hope will be noticed that those papers at Home who indulge in scoffs at the Yeomanry [was"] that the guv escort— the 91st Sharpshooters —were all killed or wounded, ibarring one man who assisted to save the limbers and one officer whose life was saved by Botha as the Boers were putting him up for execution."

— The Lord Mayor of Sheffield, at the recent annual meeting of the Sheffield Savings Bank, said not 10 per cent, of the large wage-earners saved a farthing, and when, bad trade came and the soup kitchens were started tlvy were generally the first to apply for assistance. It was the people who got from £1 to £1 5s a week, who showed a thrifty spirit. — Tht most extraordinary motor in the world is that being erected by a French doctor, in which he intends, with two students, to make a trip round the world. It will contain two sleeping apartments, a .large workroom, and four big tanks for storing oil. It will unquestionably be the largest motor ever built.

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