NEW ZEALAND'S AID TO THE EMPIRE.

Evening Post, Volume LIX, Issue 4, 5 January 1900, Page 6

NEW ZEALAND'S AID TO THE EMPIRE.

The following are the latest additions co tho Contingent in camp : — Hawera Mounted Rifles, Trooper B. W. F. Taplin; Auckland Mounted Rifles, Trooper J. A. Acheson-Jones : Waikalo Mounted Rifles, Trooper Win. Yjwdall ; Wanganui Kitles, Privates X Spence and A. Bierre. The whole of the party of 29 men who auived in barracks this morning passed tho doctors' examinations. There are 27 men awaiting Col. Penton's inspection this alternoon. The majority of these will probably go into camp to-night. Add Contingent His Excel.ency the Governor's approval of the appointment of Montagu Cradock. la c Captain 6th Dragoon Guards (Carbineers), to be Major in the New Zealand Miliua is notified in this week's Gazette. The commission dates from the 23rdl December A Wellington resident has just received a letter from a friend residing at Capetown. The New Zealand Contingent, the writer says, had to leave at two hours' notice, owing to the urgent need of horses on the Kimberley side "The men," he adds, "appear to be fully alive to the foe's slyness, creachery anu marksmanship. Your men are oertainly not all six-footers, but they make up in airiness and determination, which is stamped on every -brow. Their Troop-Sergeant-Major caused considerable amusement on faning-in nis men to march into their carriages by his frequent "D you, can't you do it smartly!" The horses your "Contingent brought with them are undoubtedly the finest brought here from any part of the world." Mr. Milne, of ihe office of the Chief Inspector of Machinery, Wellington, has received advice that a brother of his who happened xo be in Kimberley at the time of the outbreak of the war at once joined the Town Guards tiiere, but finding that the Kimberley Scot "Volunteers were called into active service, he joined that corps, and has been now for .«ome time roughing it in camp alongside the Royal Lancashire Regiment, the regulars drilling the volunteers. The Kimberley Scocs are under the command of a very popular colonial officer called Colonel j3od i^'inlaj r son, who 'is rather young, but has seen much service. He is a bro her-in-law of the late Barney Barnato, who, it will be remebered, was very successful in piling up money made in financing mines, but met with a tragic death. The regulars and volunteers have had some very successful brushes with the Boers outside Kimberley. "Young New Zealander" writes strongly endorsing the suggestion of another correspondent that the Rev. Mr. Dove should be appointed chaplain to the Contingent. In the course of a reference in his speech at Manakau last night to the New Zealand Contingent, the Premier expressed regret that no- chance had -been given young men who, though not belonging to any volunteer corps, were good' rough-riders. Ho believed thnt if men of this class had been allowed to volunteer they w.ould have formed a Maoriland Brigade which would have speedily made a name for itself. "The United Press Association this afternoon donated £50 towards the Patriotic Fund. Mr. L. Worthington, ranger for the South Canterbury Acclimatisation Society, who, on account of his height, was refused as a volunteer for active service, gave up his, position on Tuesday last and proceeded to Wellington. His intention is to go to South Africa and take his chance of being allowed to join some corps there. On his comrades at Temuka hearing of his intention, they carried him shoulder high to the railway station. Mr. Worthington has been the recipient of the Royal Humane Society's medal for saving life. [BY T£LEGRAI?H — OWN CORRESPONDENT.] MASTERTON, This Day. The Wairarapa Farmers' Co-operative Association has subscribed £50 towards the Patriotic Fund.