the Transvaal Boers. He was determined to report the war from the Boer point of view but failed to reach their lines before the ceasefire was declared. Norris-Newman remained to witness the peace negotiations and wrote With the Boers in the Transvaal about his experiences. By 1882 he was in Basutoland, in the wake of the Basuto Gun War, and afterwards joined the adventurer and mercenary Digby Willoughby in Madagascar. Willoughby, who had also served in the Zulu War and Basutoland, was appointed general in the armies of Madagascan queen Ranavalona III which fought the French in the First Franco-Hova War (1883-1885). By 1885 Norris-Newman was back in Southern Africa, serving as town clerk and treasurer to the municipality of Aliwal North in Cape Colony. He was dismissed after 18 months for embezzlement of town funds. Norris-Newman was then in Zanzibar and Central Africa until 1891, reporting on military campaigns there. His reports were published in The Times, the Pall Mall Gazette and the Daily Mail. Norris-Newman also wrote the books The Basuto and their Country and South African Stories. In the mid-1890s Norris-Newman became associated with the British South Africa Company (BSAC) which was in the process of taking over Matabeleland. By 1894 Norris-Newman was publishing the Matabeleland News and Mining Record with G.R. Cardigan. He was also an agent for the Reuters news service and set up a postal service using a series of runners from Bulawayo southwards to the telegraph line that was being constructed from the Tati Goldfields. In 1895 he published Matabeleland And How We Got it on how the BSAC acquired the territory. By 1896, when he visited England on a sightseeing and lecture tour, Norris-Newman was editor and proprietor of the Rhodesia Weekly Review. During the Second Matabele War of 1896–1897 he served as staff officer to the company's acting administrator. He was also chief intelligence officer to the Bulawayo Field Force and a colonial official. East Asia Norris-Newman left Africa for East Asia before the turn of the century. He spent time in Ceylon, Malaya, China and Japan. On 14 January 1900 he married Ethel Luke Finch in a Roman Catholic ceremony at Yokohama, Japan. The marriage had not be notified to the registrar so a legal ceremony was held to regularise it the following day at the British consulate. Finch was a former prostitute and Norris-Newman's association with her made it