THE BOER WAR.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 55, 6 March 1900, Page 2

THE BOER WAR.

NEW ZEALAND'S FIFTH

CONTINGENT

APPLICATIONS POURING IN

There was quite a rush of applicants of " all sorts and conditions" at the Drill Shod last evening when the doctors were in attendance to conduct the necessary medical tests. Fully two hundred mien presented themiselves for examination, but as only three doctors were available last evening* only a portion of the applicants could be tested. There will be another examination at the Drill Hall I'll is evening.

The following applicants passed the mled!k'<;l !exain;inai/io'n jftet (evening, and were drafted into camp to-day: — John .Beck, George Armer, Walter Hope, Albert Frost. James Glceson, William Ryan, James Sutton, Augustus Mekklesen, A. G. Baddiley, Arthur Sebly, William Gordon, E. Dormer (as bugler), Alfred Wyld (doubtful), Fred. Bird, George Green, F. W. Forbes, Win. Taylor, Samuel Knox and George Do'dd .

Glreson and Armer came from Cambridge, and Doclcl from Hamilton. Baddiley is a sergeant in the. "A" Battery of Artillery.

Mr N. A. McLeod wired to Colonel Banks yesterday the following names of men from Dargaville, Aoroa and Kaihu, offering for service on the Reserve Force:—McMath, Todd, Allan Mills, .las. T. Snowden, 11. Snowden, Garmonsway, Johnson, Rogers, Vailo and Wright, all good riders and shots, I but, •without service; also the following drilled men: Thos. Mitchell, marksman; Thompson, three years in Xavals; Chas. Burns, two years "A" j Battery; Ferguson, one year's service as a volunteer; Walter J. Stanton, two years Naval volunteers. The number of men in camp at Potter's Paddock now exceeds a hundred. Sergeant-Major Mclnt&sJi is in charge, and has begun the task—no light one —of licking- the raw material into shape. The men drafted into camp to-day were to be tested in riding this afternoon. Mr XI. M. Smeeton acted asprovidore to the Rough Riders while in camp at, Epsom, and his catering gave entire satisfaction. Mr Smeeton is also ati tending to the commissariat department of the present encampment.