A NEW ZEALAND HERO.
HOW TROOPER COUTTS WON THE QUEEN'S SOARF. Wellington, this day. Trooper Harry Oonald Coutt3, of the First Contingent, mentioned yesterday as : one of the recipients of one of the Queen's scarves awarded for conspicuous bravery, is a farmer from Ngaire district, Taranaki, and bore himself with special gallantry in the Koornspruit ambush on the 31st March last. While galloping away under a heavy rifle fire he met, a uon-comraisacd officer of the Burmese Mounted Infantry, who had been shot through the body. Noting his plight, Coutts, with the assistance of another New Zealander, managed to get the wounded mau in from of him, and as the non-com, sank into semi-consciousness, Ooutis started off, and managed to convey him to a house near Bushman's Kop, where he was handed over to the officer in charge of the ambulance. The man, whose name was Edgar, rallied after Coutts had carried him half the distance, and then lapsed into an unconscious state, so that the New Zea lander bad not only to hold his companion in the saddle but also to support his whole weight. Edgar stated that had the colo nial not come to his rescue he must have died on the veldt. It was afterwards stated that Edgar died in hospital. The feat was at the time noted as one of the pluckiest incidents of the campaign.
