MORTALITY AMONG HORSES.
Brisbane, February 17. Major P. Ricardo, officer commanding the first contingent of Queensland Mounted Kifles, writing from Belmont on January 19fch says that fifty-three of the contingent's horses have died of pneumonia. The balance of the horses have, including many sick, been sent away for a spell. The result* of this, says th^. Major, is that the Queenslanders have' now been reduced to infantry pure and simple. Unless his efforts to obtain remounts fronji the Argentine aro~succ6ssful l ho is afraid that the contingent $011 not get £0
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 6626, 19 February 1900, Page 2
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91MORTALITY AMONG HORSES. Manawatu Standard, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 6626, 19 February 1900, Page 2
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