GENERAL NOTES.

Colonist, Volume XLIII, Issue 9692, 23 January 1900, Page 3

GENERAL NOTES.

[from various sources.]

Here is an anecdote which goes to show how far British chivalry can be carried. When the Red Cross train returned from the scene of the armored train disaster at Estcourt, the medical officer in charge sub mitted his official report, and then intimated that he had important information to submit in reference to the enemy's position. " I merely want your medical report," returned the general ; what you saw when on a Red Cross mission I have nothing to do with."

A very curious story is told by the Capetown correspondent of the ' Daily Chronicle.' The Hon. George Peel has had (he says) an astonishing adventure. Wandering beyond Methuen's camp he found himself in the presence of a Boer, who presented him not with a rifle, but with aßible, opened at the Book of Revelations, and then fled. Mr .Peel, browned, bearded, and in kharki, was immediately afterwards seized by three Grenadier Guardsmen, hauled before Lord Methnen, and accused of being a Boer spy. Explanations ensued, and the captors looked rather foolish.

Lady Glasgow and her daughters— Lady Augusta Orr-Ewing, Lady Alice Beyle, and Lady Dorothy Gathorne-Hardy — have (says the London correspondent of the "Post") sent Christmas presents for the New Zealand Contingert in South Africa, consisting of 200 pipes and tobacco for the men and a box of cigarettes for each of the officers.