Australian Contingent.
TRANSPORTS’SENT FOR ONE
THOUSAND MEN.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Sydney, last night. Sir William Lyno has received a cable that transports for a thousand men and horses are leaving the Cape for Sydney. This is assumed to signify that the Premier’s offer to increase the South African contingent to two thousand men, to which no definite reply has previously been sent, has been accepted. About 800 arc required to make up the two thousand. The steamer Argus, which takes the Victorian contingent, has arrived at Sydney.
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Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 30, 5 February 1901, Page 2
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87Australian Contingent. Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 30, 5 February 1901, Page 2
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