HOCKEY.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLVII, Issue 12283, 17 September 1904, Page 7

HOCKEY.

WANGANUI V. TARANAEI.

The- following team has been selected to represent. "YVanganui against Taranaki on Thursday next: — Wanagnui.—Hardwick, Armstrong, Pearce, Gurr, Soler, 8011, J. Thomson, Coe, Loveday, Harris, W. Thomson. Emergencies: Full back, Cave.; half back, Loftus; forwards, Butler and Markham.

A correspondent sends us the following fragment of history, gleaned personally from Color-Sergeant Brooks. He gives tho story as told by Brooks: —"It comes back to .my memory—tha death of one whom the veterans of New Zealand, and Wanganui in particular, will remember ■with great respect, Yon Tempsky. It Avas to me an. incident never to be forgotten. The 'advnace; was sounded. I was standing at the time, in my ragged clothes, just near a big riinu tree. Yon Tempsky, as the bugla ceased, turned to me and said, 'If I can -get out of tin's engagement alive I wi<B'\va,sih my hands of the New Zealand forces.' As we advanebd to the opening, just outside- the buita, we were received w.'lth a volly. Wo sent one back in reply. I was about ■twenty or thirty feet from Yon Temp-, sky wJie/n I heard Mm say, 'I am done for —my, God !' I ran across to Mm, and looking on his face I saw that he had been shot about an inch or so above the right eye. While td-ying to lift the body I had tih© luck to be shot myself, one •bullet entering my left• sido- and another striking mo just above the ankle. I dropped uncoitoeious, and was carried into camp. As to^what was done with Yon Tenipsky's body, I believe, from what I saw and heard, that it \ya.s cut to pieces and distributed amongst the attacking force of 'Maoris. As for n,ysoif, I had been recoinmend-ed, by witnesses, for the Queen's, medal. Our late Governor, Lord Ranfurly, and the Duke of York, both promised', as also did Mr. T. D. Cummins, to see that I received fba medal, which I still hope to do.''