HOW NEWS IS CARRIED.

Otago Witness, Issue 2509, 16 April 1902, Page 53

HOW NEWS IS CARRIED.

One fcout earriei this information baclc to the nearest group of comrades, whoso hiding place ho knows, whence it i» carried on by s-hort re'.ajs to the commandant's headejiiiirtoi.- : the other remains to giv;» warning if the British col'imn -hould break camp or show -ign-, of greater \igilauce before the Boer mam body tail come up. That may po--iMy ha\e been a dozsn mile? off at nightfall, and not even concentrated. But the different detachments k< ep toucli with each other e\ en when s-raUered over. a wido air a At a word they are ready to mo\e foi w aid. coiuerging a- they advance, and alwayi -eeun> agnin=t Mirpri-e unti» they ha\o pas-ed then foremo-t line ol wate hers. Thus a foiniidable fenci- i« brought together at a po.nt !cague-> distant from the billets its men occupied two 01 three houre earlier. The be-t Intelligence officer served by the kerno-t -c out*-, if they do not know en cry dodge that the Boer is cunning in may ha\e learned no more than that a few eletae lied bands of ragged burghers were: hovering about. Thus the opportunity foi a dash comes, and De Wet ha^, shown that he. knows how to profit by sue h ehanc-os wher the odds are all in his favour. But he may reckon with out his ho<-t home day, and the oftrner he praeti-es these tactics the better will be ou) ehane-e of <atclung him.

On Wednesday morning, thp 9th in«fc , Mi- .1. Sheath, the manager of the Ringway c-tato, left the Crown Hotel, Otautuu, c,n ,1 shooting pxpedition in tho Lon^uood rango K . As he did not return cm Weelne-day evening, a -eaieh paity. with Con-<jble Joyco, went out on 'ilmr-day m«.i imicf, but 110 ngn of him. The .-< 'ich wa- coiitinuecl cjii Fiiday. the paii\ tia'tr-i'ig th<- ranges a- far as the head watci- eJ the I'orrapourakmo Stioam, and from the upp; r (iovcrmnent track to (ilonbuin Sawmill, bin found 110 traces of Mr Sheatk It is foam j thai h" may have nir-t with an ire.de 11 . nnd if that mi-foitune ha^> li''f.i"ni birr .|. | being alone, las position wou'd II 1111 ' 1 a ve-iy^ critical one Ihe search will be continued. 1 —W-i-totn Star.