THE FOURTH CONTINGENT.

Clutha Leader, Volume XXVI, Issue 1378, 23 February 1900, Page 5

THE FOURTH CONTINGENT.

♦ ■ papt. Harvey, of ihe C.M.R. left for Dunedin on Wednesday to take up his irlutifs in • the Eorbury Camp and on the selection jnii-tee*,-A Wellington special to the Star last evening says thfit the steamer Montefelt will not bo available until the middle, cf March, j Meantime the Government are negotiating with the owners of another ttßamsr, which could be available next week , The Daily Times takes particular notice of the splendid riding of the Clutha men. Mr C?S. Dalgliesh, of Warepa, has gone into camp in place of Troopar Smith who did not pass the medical exam. . Four of the Southland horses have been rejected. Trooper Clark of the C.M.R. has been rejected on account of defective hearing. The sum of Ll6 was raised at the Warepa conversazione on Wednesday. Amongst the speakers were Mrs (Drj Gordon Macdonald, Mr T. Mackenzie, and Mr A. S: Malcolm. Clinton had a most successful enterfain'merit in aid of -the fund on Wednesday evening- . ■■'•'• Nothing haa yet been decided in regard to officers. The Ratanui people at a concert on Saturday night raised L 25 toward the equipment of Moir who has recently returned from an unsuccessful trip to Klondyke.