THE EIGHTH CONTINGENT.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7384, 10 February 1902, Page 2

THE EIGHTH CONTINGENT.

Ghristchurch, February 8. At Lyttelton, the Contingent met with a hearty reception. They were addressed by the Premier, General Babington, Hon. W. C. Walker, and the Mayor of Lyttelton. They then embarked, and were accompanied to the Heads by several of the U.S.S. Company's steamers, and as they passed the Contingent band played " The Girl I Left Behind Me." Chhistohubch, February 9. The Premier has received a cable stating that the following returned troopers from South Africa passed through Hobart yesterday, en route for New Zealand :— Sergeant A. Vogant, Troopers W. G. Hall, Porteous, W. A. T. Blackmore, Broadhurst, C. E. Gray, W. Gray, H. C. Hopkins, F. H. Symonds, T. M. Rogerson, A. Garrites, E. J. Harr, J. L. Graham, W. B. Armitage, and G. T. Hean— all of Prince of Wales' Light Horse ; also, J. W. Marshall and C. S. C. Stratford.

The Hawera quota of the Ninth Contingent joined the express train on Saturday evening, en route for Auckland, where the North Island battalion will go into camp. Owing to a misunderstanding, the Taranaki men of the Ninth Contingent did not get away from New Plymouth by the Hinemoa on Saturday night. The men left by train for the breakwater at 11.30 p.m., and after waiting on the wharf for two hours in a drizzling rain, sought shelter in the sheds. On Sunday morning they walked back to New Plymouth, and during the day wires were sent to Wellington without any satisfactory explanation being received. The men were therefore accommodated with beds on Sunday night, and will likely leave by the Ngapuhi to-night. It transpires that the Hinemoa passed New Plymouth some time on Saturday night. Why she did not call is a mystery.