THE TENTH CONTINGENT.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 11244, 9 April 1902, Page 9

THE TENTH CONTINGENT.

SOUTH ISUND_BATTALION. CAMP NOTES. —. .. va rifles were issued for shooting Thl rfc y at tho Cashmere pr.ictice .j* x ' o t h e we t shooting -was lUnge ; f j n S during the afternoon. m wl* man was dismissed from canip for misconduct. yC eSS>-M»jor Hums, Lieutenants Hill, n *R/*bie. and Corfe Lave arrived in Jones. **""" Ca Xre » » proposition that the Garrison nLi ptov <>n the grounds next Saturday SSoon.'and charge for admission tfSSe. the funds obtained to be deJJtJd to tbe purchase cl instruments for a C °Th?rfS iTrictae*. in the camp, tfce whote of * he officers and men ke€ P iD « *= { "r r 8 f of the Defence Stores iWtfflent. has now taken up-hia quarters iVLmp irith h« assistant, Mr Crowe. The Wdtiniton people are being hurried to for--β-ird for tho of the men. Sirearing-in was prooeedine merrily yestwday in 'tha tent next to tfb« adjutant'u ouart*r». The strength of the Contingent remains unchanged. One or two men, reported as men-in-waitinsr. have been enrolled in place of the men dismissed for misconduct. Lieutenant Corfe is orderly officer for the day. . Corporal Curtis has been appointed paymaster's clerk. Fifty horses came from Gisborne by the To Anau, and 250 are expected from Auckfaid by tie Taieri next week. APPOINTMENT OF OFFICERS. ; (PRESS ASSOCIATION" TELEGRAM.) ' WELLINGTON, April 8. The following provisional appointments hare been made in the South Island section of tihe Tenth Contingent:—Officere—E Squadron, Lieutenant Dennett in command; If Squadron, Lieutenant .Haling in oonv nnnd; G Squadron, Lieutenant Keddell in command; H Squadron, Lieutenant Butlxar in command Hon-commissioned officers— E Squadron; Sergeant H. S. Curtis, Lyons, Fear, and J. W. Durham, Corporals J. Andrews, Neil, C. W. HiU, W. Matters, D. H. Crosser, and C. Smiti. F Squadron: Sergeants J. E. T. Burnett, E. L. Holland, Corporals <J. A, Jeffreys, and J. Nicholls, LanoeCorporaU E. V. Johnston and A. L. Burob. G Squadron: Sergeanta Stott, F. Booth, P. C. Cooper, and R. Sutherland. H Squadron: Sergeants Challis, A. West, J. Murphy and Wilttin, Corporals R. C. Lacey, .C. McGregor, F. Morisco, and H. Stalker. Sergeant in command of details, acting-Ser-geant Keddell. Captain Coscjrove has Been appointed paymaster, and Lieutenant Bremner, of Gwborne, Lieutenant-Quarter-master.