THE MOUNTEDS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 277, 20 November 1913, Page 6

THE MOUNTEDS.

ACTIVITY HT THE CITY. LARGE PATROL PARTIES. One btindred mounted specials ware allowed to return to their homes this morning, bat before they left more than that number had arrived to replace them. The Farmers' Union Executive report that a. surprising number of offers are being received from day to day from othej fanners willing to come to Auckland. Companies are wailing at Man?r>nui and the Bay of Islands, in the '.vr Xorth. to come whenever they are •<:!!ed. The former would have an overind ride of about four days to reach lie railhead, and the executive iriß not, .here-fure, bring them do-om *mtil reinforcements from districts nearer the city give out.

The three regiments in camp continue to relieve one another every twelve hours for guard duty on the waierlront, and patrol dnty about the city. More attention is now to be paid to the latter work, and occasionally as many as one hmvlred mounted men are seen together as far away from the -wharves as Hobson Street, above WeHesley Street.

A decision has not yet 'been come to relative to the removal of the camp from the Outer Domain to a more spacious site, 'but the matter is receiving attention from the authorities. Those in charge state that the health of file men is good, no cases of serious sickness havrnc occurred, and that the horses axe keeping well.

\ISTTS TO THE PITJURBS.

The city special constables eontimiß their routine work without special incident. The 300 at Queen's wharf, besides keeping suard, rloin-r fatigue duty, eta, sometimes send parties of fifty or sixty into the suburbs in response to any reports concerning the obtrusiveness of strike pickets. A large body marched past the Trades Hall yesterday afternoon shortly before a brush occurred between mounted specials and pedestrians, which is referred to elsewhere. But the specials passed right on to Newton. Two hundred specials have been transferred from the Drill Hall to the King's wharf, there to be quartered, and to guard the approaches to the -wharf while vessels are working there. The balance are still encamped at the Drill HaTL, and each evening they send out parties by motor car to guard various buildings until morning.