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Evening Star, Issue 11169, 19 February 1900, Page 4

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Hotel Company employes a horse, to be named wai#era Committee have forwa-rded to equip A. Clements, of Warwera., and ■fVV. Clark »nct:C. D. Bnrges, of Baklutha. Mi' Jamea Moreton, of Waikaka Valley, intends sending thirty bags of chaff. The residents of Waiteoeka and Puerna have forwarded £25 to equip Trooper Shalders, for whom a horse has been forwarded by the people of Romahapa. 'J.'he residents of Xokumai have subscribed £2O for a horse, which they suggest should go to W. Fairbairn. Colonel Penton has telegraphed stating that he will see the Committee about the Teiltounts on Tuesday. In the meantime, they luive been placed in a paddock at Christchurch. A snm of £25 was handed to the lion, secretary on Saturday night, representing the subscription of a few of the domestic servants of Duncdin. Waipori sends £lB 17s to equip a local , t volmiteer. The hairdressers guarantee to provide n Ife horse, to be called " Close Shave," and ;tsk ||~ that it be reserved for Gawne. At a meeting of the Typographical AssocisUon on Saturday night the special comW mittee appointed under their auspices i| reported that over £27 had been" colW lectcd from those employed in the M vanons printing offices in aid of W th« Fourth Contingent Fund. The W busiaess of the evening over, Mr Watlien f sang" The gallants of F.ngland' and Mr Jas. '"'i Jago ' Soldiers of the Queen.' The hat was passed round, and resulted in 30s 6d being s k subscribed, which it wa-s agreed should be added to the list Roxburgh sends £66 7s 7d for the equipmen* of VV. Gunn, A. Clarke, and W. W. Stringer. Middlemarch will forward £IOO. residents send £25 for the equipment of G. H. Smith. The Builders' Association have given a horse J. Murdoch and Co. have donated £25 for the purchase of a horse to be named " Rimu," and their employes have also given £25 to the Contingent Fund. The Ngapara residents have intimated that they are sending PettingaJ with a horse and outfit. Bayley and Sons, of Burnside, and employes ha-ve donated their horse to Dr James Watt. The following donations have been received :—Mr and Mrs Short £5 ss, Eatanui residents (per W. Carlton) £lO, Portobello ~ —jamd' fKWton residents £65 17s Bd, Ihmruhin residents £25, Sawvers Bay residents £22 12s 6d, Miller Fkt residents £25. Mr Maurice Joel intends to present 40doz of ale. The Sandy mount concert on Friday, with the canvass of the district, brings in£6s. At Tapanui about £9O has been already raised. A meeting of master bakers, journeymen, and vanmen was hel<l in the Coffee Palace on Saturday, Mr J. Jenhius presiding. The collecting committees handed i:, their reports and subscription lists, which proved most .satisfactory, over £lO Wing collected from the trade in two days. Orea*! credit is due to a vanboy named Welsh, wh(. collected £1 10s 3d in small sums. It was decided to ask the Contingent Cnmniitt.ee to purchase a horse, on behalf of the bakers of Dunedin and suburhs. for presentation to James Taylor, and to be known as " Baker." Two boys named George Martin and Charles M'Allister, belonging to South Duuedin, collected 7s in pennies on Saturday for fund. I j.;' At a meeting at Portobello on Friday the I;:'' Committee recently appointed to canvass I Broad Bay, Hoop»r Inlet, Kaik, and Porto- ■ bello reported £6o collected to find hortt ■ and eqntoment for one man. A Kaik man—- ■ Gunner Barnes, of the Permanent Artillery, Mr at present stationed at the Heach—having it was decided to equip him if T" 9 horse to be nhmed the Native name for Harbor girls engaged in domestic serin oollecting the sum of of Kotertainment Con'was entertainment oa the musical people of Danei'iu the decorations meeting at Tapiuu; The proceeds were the £'■ The preMr to the gave a received, making a Walter Morrison, the acreceived and was loudly cheered! Mr J. R. MSllysnzie, Glenkonich Soation, haß donated a horiW--THE MEDICAL EXAJIINATTOXS. The following Is'a further list of recruits who passed the medical examination on Saturday:—Charles Duff Burgess, horsebreaker ; Alfred Ponsford Dryc'.en, groom ; John Dillon, miner; John Dungcy. horsetrainer ; John Edgar, stock-rider ;" William Ja.mes Fallowfield, laborer ; Alexander Ferguson, miner ; M'Kwan Grav, engineer ; William Alexander Hill, groom ; Capi'l Hamilton Kent, storeman; Edward M'Leod, laborer; George M'Leod, ban!: clerk and ex-farmer; John Young Moir. Bushman; Thomas Mee, farmer ; Albert Edward Thurlow, saddler; Dcrmot Williams, shepherd ; \ Bailey, farmer; Robert Anderson r\ Drinnan, farmer; David Howatson, plough- ;' '| man; Herbert Thomas Alexander Lilburne ;,-'; carter; Alfred Thomson, fanner. ' THE CAMP. ". THE ABB2VAI, OF THE SOUTHLAXD BOYS. k ; .. On Saturday afternoon a number of the I;' men -were employed in erecting additional f tents and hone lines. The camp now con- | sistsof fonrrows of eighteen tents each, arid ' the officers' quarters have been moved to the west side of the camp, forming a row of . tents by 'themselves. . Many of the men »' had never seen a military tent pitched before in their lives, so that the practice and experience were useful. Lieutenant G. Macdonald was the officer deputed to welcome tie Southland Contintgeat, and, accompanied by two orderlies, received them at the railway station. There ■were from 1,000 to 1,500 people waiting in the Triangle to cheer them. The Southland boys, dressed mostly in blue jerseys, were in charge of Lieutenant Hazlett, of the Sooihkmd Mounted Rifles. As soon as possible the men were made welcome by Cr CfcrroU (senior councillor),, in the absence of the _mayor, and the Organising Committee. CtCwtoH said that the men were going to do daty on behalf of the Empire to which we are all proud to belong—an Empire which was the envy of the world, and which must mamtam its-integrity at all costs. We had v. sent men away with thi First Contingent, of Xvjhjm we were all proud; but he thought from the material he saw before him that there «as no occasion to hold the mem- - bers of tirJ%B&ntingent up its an example to them. He knew that they would do their duty; and he thought that'there would not be a coward-found in their ranks.—(Hear, hear.) When they returned from South' Africa, as he hoped they would, crowned with honor, their reception would be infinitely more enthusiastic than it was that day He begged to tender them a sincere welcome on behalf of the citizens. Mr Carroll concluded by calling for three cheers for the men. ' After cheers had also been given for Lieutenant Haolett, Mr T. W. Kempthornc welcomed the men on behalf of the Reception Committee. The Committee had had n lioble response from Otago and Southland j£i for volunteers, and no section of the country •f, ..had been more enthusiastic than the part §'£. from which the men before him had come. &,/ f He was sure that they would receive a hearty §t^7a^ omo w^cn they went to tllD ciim l ); ancl B|,s9?>[Jng the time that they were there the they wonld undergo would prove It ?8&&tol to them. He, hoDed that there I r f yould net he a single hitch until they got v° C? Africa, and Jdien thev got there be knew thaUhey good account

$ of themselves. He again thanked them for the noble way they hud responded to the country's call. Cheers were then given for the Committee, after which the volunteers were marched to the Garrison Hall,' and from there they were driven to the camp at Forbury Park. The Southland men, who were not able to sleep in camp on Saturday night!, brought' thirty-six horses with them. The uiU rucking of the horses, which arrived by the seven o'clock train. w;is entrusted to a, squad of men under Sergeant Fox. The first leave was given on Saturday evening. A number of men came into town and fraternised with the Southland boys Patriotic songs and general jubilation over the Kimberley news were the order of the evening up to eleven o'clock, when they all returned to camp quietly. Yesterday morning a church parade was held the Rev. W. Curzon-Siggers conducting the service and preaching. Th- men were in charge of Lieutenant Macdonald. and formed one division, while Lieutenants Morris and Prain were in charge of the other two. the preacher occupied a raised platform and immediately behind him were several choristers to lead the singing. With the exception of a squad on guard dutv, all he men were present. The Southlands formed up four deep, facing the speaker, and Hie rest of the men were in a similar formation on his left and right, the whole hodv tormmg three sides oi a rectangular figure, and facing inwards. The open end of the square was occupied bv the P.ev. Curzotidiggers. The majority of the men were in their ordinary clothes, while half a dozen different uniforms showed up here and there m the rank.. The bine jerseys of the m »M '.■',» hj formu<i ;l distinctive featurlire Kev. V Curzon-Siggers, in his sermon, said tliat the men were going to fight for the British Empire. God would hVht for them, f,,,- tI, L . British Nation was tluTmuaiw of extending peace and ri,hteousui-s throughout the world. As to The revere we had „, e t with at, the Cane--thev could not be dignified by the name of defeat-----had it not been for them we could have never shown to the world the intense loyalty of every part of the Umpire. If the En', dish iiad swept through to the Transvaal capital m a few weeks the colonial eontin-ci-P would not have been needed, and thus v valuable lesson would have been lost. Tlr men listened closely and attentively, and the hymns were taken up heartilv. especially oiu composed by Mr Cureon-Sig-cis himself, arid sung to the fine old tune associated with Mr S. Baring-Gould's hvmn 'Onward, Christian soldiers.' The National Anthem brought the service to a close. " Tnu teu phone eountction with the Can,, •van carried tut by a squad of the Dune.li. Engineer Volunteers under Ssogeaacnuio Hvnry. NURSbS' FUND. The patin.. ... ~t , ~-.', „,,„ ia the nosp ; il of their oiru iniiiativH collected amoi.j h'-mselvea the sum of £1 (J, towards ti. •bove. A letter has b;en received from Mr Wn.. I'AtcrßOD, of Puerua, aeking i hit a nurse l> ■ei.t to thfttdistric, and off.-riog hospiulu\ ■'<.:, should the Committee so decide. Nur" i'Viser will probab.y go oa Mond.w, il ■'(i'.h. THE GARKICK CLUB. The bent-tit performance! tendered by t'i ibove club to the O-ugo-Southland Contingent and Nines' Fund, set down for Mo. I»y, the -2tJch in.it,., at the Princess' i'hcr.tre, promises exweding'.y well from Ibiaucial etai dpoini, and tnts-e rie.-ervii. are likely to bunt fit largelv fro •1..; movement,. Tr,* ladies of the Nura, .• Committee have taken ihe up wi^ p rit, and tickets are selling rapidly. Ti. uux pi>mi at the Dresleu is being extensive! patronised, and we ate nquested io runir,. lending patrons of the advisability o • curving early. The play selected for th •ceasioa is Tom Riberfson'd spleudicomedy 'Caste, or the Soldier's Bride, i.d it will be interpreted by Mcsst. .George S-evwright, RevnolJ-, Uanniston rionald M'l,. a-, Alficd Foi?yih, Mr H. ;-' Valentine, ami i\ii 3 i Annie Sime, with thrrofessional assist*ucs of Miss Irene Curlyo aid Mr Biirie Marsclnl. Mr A. F. R .her • viaw will control a full orchestra, the men. b n of which hwe gmerocsly volunteertier services for the oecisiou, PATRIOTIC M !■:K ri XG AT~R \VKX< 150 UK NK. The West Harbor Faurth Continge. "■••■nut'ea hel.i * IViiu'ic meeting .. Ravembourne on F.i lay. Hi, Worship tin M.yor (Mr U K .'. ,i ■■(.-,) urtsiiltci, a„. ■ atriotic spetum- w. r- .hlivrred bv !{> Worship the M ,-.>•*.-. |i cV . I).- NichoUi u>d Mes>ri.T. A. MlUr ut d E O All.-.. VI U.s. Af 'rwi s .vers ten,itr<".l for M •J. F. Arnold, M H 11 . and M r W. II M-nt gome.y, ex-M. H. It. M r J stswan recii.-i. • The Relief of L-i, b„.v • an.i ' Pardon, thi Smi of It(, pr ;,v.,' : |.in,> n * nf , M-l).n»ld r. '"'rd 'Oar F. ; ik' ; Mmi s> D , ' ftubi BMUnr.i\,' f.i« rW,!3i b»i n^. heartily takeu up by the whole meeting; •u' is. lielt h.... s • e>v..d (.1 u,c- aea,' nit J. t '. R')-r 'Sons cf the Kirif.ir.: ' and 'Soldie.f of the Qaeen.'ar.d Mr F. O. CVjv 'The bat:]. of Swirling Bridf/-.' Mr James Low (whf h as volunteered from lUvcr.ibouine f.r lb Fourth Contingent, haviug obtained leave oabaenoe from the camp) occupied a foat on the platform, and fnvotr-l i i le ' llu ,li euce w j t ;, the song ' The British fl,g.> While he wa' -mgiug the msyor toi.k ilo- Urdnn Jack anc threw it over the ringer's shoulders. The Duncdin Pipe Biud, consisting cf fiftie'. oerformera, undnr the IcaJer-hip of Mi Gray, in addition to contributing thre. • -rr.« dnri,»g -h„ r-nr hj •■] -brm'td. the district, mik'ng the hilbidea ring with the martial strains which won the aay at Uargai and ElandsUagte. The meeting w.s a huge success, the secretary intimatiDg that the total amount received up till then including the canvass-of district, door takings, and collection in the hall, was £57 16s. This will more than provide the obj-ct aimed at—namely, the entire equipment oi Mr Jumes Low. The proceedings were opened and closed by the singing 3 of the National Anthem by the whole audience lhe proprietors of the hall gave it withotr charge, and Messrs Wilkie and Co. dona.ici the posters.