10 MAY 1902, Page 24

With the New Zealanders at the Front. By Corporal F.

Twistleton. (Edmonson, Skii.ton.)—When some one comes to compare the various voces popu/i that have come from the ranks, he will have a hard piece of work. "The Boers are absolutely the worst shots in the world," says our author. "They use all kinds of bullets," he says again. "Each man fights until he reckons he has had enough, and then he is off." "There is no mistake about the Tommies ; they are wonderfully game." "The people of Great Britain would be astonished at some of the things they send out as officers, could they see them as they are." "The cavalry seemed to possess an undue share of nincompoops." "It is very different in the infantry ; the subalterns there are of a better stamp."