AUSTRALASIANS IN THE NAVY
It is rather a coincidence (says our Wellington correspondent) that all the four lieutenants now on board H.M.S. Porpoise are
colonials. Lieut. Parker, who got a step after the Samoan. business, is a New Zealander. His mother, who is Lord Kitchener's sister, has come up to Wellington from the South to meet him. Lieutenants Gaunt (tlie navigating officer), Schuter, and Orr are Victorians. Gaunt was aide-de-camp to Sir Claude Macdonald when he first went to China. His brother, who was a naval captain, is at present Governor of Wei-hai-wei. Another brother is in a crack cavalry regiment, and went through the skge of Ladysmith, about which he wrote a scries of most interesting letters. Parker's younger 'brother, a young New Zealander, who went with the Second Contingent, and afterwards obtained a commission in Kitcheners Horse, was killed in one of his first battles. He was a young man of great promise. Schuter also has a brother in the South African war.
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Press, Volume LVII, Issue 10733, 13 August 1900, Page 5
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