CAPTAIN SCOTT-HARDEN.
As already • announced, Captain Scott-Harden, who has just arrived from pho battlefields of the East, whera he acted as correspondent for the Lon» don "Chronicle" and "Graphic," will give a lecture and pictorial entertainment in the Theatre Royal on Monday evening. Captain . Spott-Harden has recently lectured on the war in Sydney, Melbourne and Dnnedin, before large audiences, who showed the greatest interest in his stories. He is an old compaigner, having been for ten year* in the Lancashire Fusiliers in India, Beluchastan and Egypt. He served under Sir Herbert Chennside in Crete during the international occupation in. 1898; with Lord Dundonald in South Africa, taking part in the battles of Colenso, Spionkop and Pieter's Hill, and was one of the first to ride into Ladysmith. He went through the So. maliland campaign under General Manning, and crosged the desert after the Mad Mullah. At the outbreak of tha Russo-Japanese war Captain Spottj Harden proceeded to the Far East, and has seen many stirring incidents in the preseut campaign- The box plan fo? .Monday's entertainment is now ©pea at Messrs Milner and Thompson's,
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 8249, 23 February 1905, Page 2
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