TEE ANGLO-BOER WAR.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXV, Issue 74, 30 March 1901, Page 4

TEE ANGLO-BOER WAR.

RETURN OF NEW ZEALANDERS.

ARRIVAL AT WELLINGTON.

THREE HUNDRED OTHERS ON

THE WAY.

Wellington, March 29.

The following New Zealanders disembarked from the Waihora . this morning in charge of FarrierrSergeant Warren, all being privates unless otherwise specified :--J. Anderson (Wanganui), Third Contingent, wounded at Rhenoster Kop Andrews (Ashburton), Fifth Contingent, enteric; Sergt. Warren, Kitchener's Horse, wounded at Rhenoster Kop ; Thos. Casey (Auckland), First Contingent; J. Townsend (Dunedin), wounded at Tigerpoort, near Pretoria ; Farrier - Sergeant Wilkinson (Auckland), Forth Contingent, debility; A. G. Baker, Fourth Contingent; F Bird, Third Contingent; M. Crean, Fourth Contingent; L. Horhe, Second Contingent; H. Bodman, No. 12 Company, Fifth Contingent; Corporal G. E. Derrett, Rough Riders ; W. H. Reeves, Fifth Contingent, Imperial Bushmen ; R. W. Barry, Kaffrarian. Rifles; E. C. Evans, Third Contingent ; Farrier Spain, Fourth Contingent; G. E. Murray, Brabant's Horse; R. J. Brown, Second Contingent, wounded at Rhenoster Kop; J. A. Borlase, Second Contingent, wounded at Rhenoster Kop; A. Dickson Fifth Contingent; J. R. Jensen, Brabant's Horse; Corporal H. Thornon and J. H ? Liggins, both of the Fffth Contingent.

Privates Anderson and Baker were wounded in action in the hip. Brown bears a nasty shell wound in the thigh. Anderson was hit by a ball in the leg, Borlase in tlie arm and Bodman on the back of the hand. Several of the men were in the Rhenoster Kop action. The Premier received advice this morning from Capetown to the effect that the members of the Second and Third Contingents, to the number of 300, will leave Capetown for Wellington by the Tongariro to-morrow.

The following members of the earlier contingents have decided to remain and serve with the sixth in South Africa : — Harper, G. Watkins, De Carteris, Hawthorne, Hislop and Merine.