We share to the full the enthusiasm with which Mr.
Bennet Burleigh in a letter to Thursday's Daily Telegraph, despatched on November lst, announces that it has been decided by the military authorities to abandon the use of ox-waggons with flying columns :—" There are to be fewer waggons, and columns are to go out with all their kit and supplies upon pack- horses. Hurrah for the abolition of the ox-waggon, weariest of wheeled vehicles !" In an earlier part of his letter, Mr. Burleigh tells a very striking story. A British officer in the course of a friendly conversation with a Boer field cornet under a flag of truce asked : "When do you think the war 'will be over ? " "Oh," replied the Boer, "when you people are able to catch a horse with an ox waggon; not before." 'With nil the–ffiffidence required 'by civilians dealing with military matters, we have ourselves occasionally ventured to wonder whether sending ox-waggons in pursuit of mounted men was a wise proceeding, and to suggest of De Wet, that the "panting ox toils after him in vain." But perhaps we had better say no more. A recent issue of the Spectator was forbidden to be circulated in South Africa by order of the military censor on account, according to one of the officers in question, of its ignorance of military matters, and possibly any disrespectful language towards the sacred ox-waggon may cause yet another suppression.
