TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION. SUSPENDED.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 10480, 19 October 1899, Page 5

TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION. SUSPENDED.

The New Zealand-Telegraph. Departmentis notified by Natai that coffißHmicatMm between that colony and the Q*" *™ State :a entirely tra&pended. The Eastern Extension Telegraph Company notifieetha* all communication between the Cape of Uood Hope and the Orange Free State and, «m> Traitsvaal is entirely suspended. All telegrams with. South- Africa are submitted to the Censor at Aden. Lieutenant Colonel lYaati* will laora iW

the North to-day, to be prewnt at tt» •end-off to the New Zealand Contingent at Wellington on Saturday. Hia Worship the Mayor of Christchurch leaven to-night, by the Mokoia, leaves on Thursday night, by the Mokoia, for Wellington, in response to the invitation of tb* General Committee there, to be present at the send-off of the New Zealand Contingent on Saturday. Mr Feldwick, Mayor of Kaiepoi, lias ci*> accepted tl» invitation. In response to a request passed by a majority of the Sumner Borough Council, Cr. J. A. Graham goes to Wellington this evening, to represent the Council at the demonstration on the departure of the Contingent. The Contingent contain* four members of the Postal Department, oue each from Auckland, Onehunga, Patea, and Marton. They have been granted extended leave of absence. Their positions in the Department will be kept open, aad their seniority under the classification scheme preserved. A telegraphist also volunteered for telegraph duty, but his services were not required. A private letter received in Uhristchurcli •tates that the Contingent are to be provided •with fehrec uniforms, all of khaki colour. Two of these will be of cotton aad quite plain,, the other of tweed with maroon facing*. Everything ie to be prorded for the men, even to pocket-knvven. Identification labels are to bo stitched inside the tunics. The cargo shut out from the Walwera was cent away for Wellington last night by the Poherua, Dr. Burns, of Dunedin, who accompanies the Contingent &» medical officer, will go to South Africa with the men, but on arrival there his duties wiM cease, as tine Imperial •dtborities will take that and all other departments into their change.