THE SOUTHERN CAMP.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 46, 23 February 1901, Page 2

THE SOUTHERN CAMP.

CHRTSTCIIURCH, this day. Canterbury has been allotted 34 men for the Seventh Contingent, and out of the 130 Who applied 50 have been ordered to report themselves at the local Defence Office at once. About thirty came, in to town yesterday, and are now in camp in the drill shed grounds. They will undergo a. medical examination, and afterwards will be put through their facings by Sergt.Major Coleman, who drilled the previous contingents. Those who have gone into camp are rather a weedy lot, and several of them will not pass the medical examination. The Defence Department -called for tenders for the supply of 2400 pairs boots for the Seventh Contingent, pn samples shown at the local office. Local manufacturers considered the samples of such an inferior nature that several of them declined to tender on them, and sent to Wellington their own samples with tenders, and the tender of Messrs M, O'Brien and Co. ■was accepted for their own samples, pies. GISBQRNE, this day, A telegram received to-night from Colonel Porter shows that the organisation of the Seventh Contingent is being very rapidly done. The enrolling officer, Major McCredie, has been instructed to send a Gisborne quota of 1.0 men by the steamer leaving1 on Sunday for Napier, and they are then to take train foT Wellington. Some of the applicants cannot be communicated with in the time allowed, but as usual there are likely to be more good men from Gisbprne than required even though tie tjme is so short.