THE MILITARY CONTINGENT.
[BY TEWOIUPH.-PIIE3B ASSOCIATION. I Wellington, Tuesday. There wai a crowd of several thousand people at the Railway Wharf to see the contingent and rifle team off by the Tutanekai to-night. The men marched down from the barracks headed by the band, and the Permanent Artillery awaited them all the wharf. The orowd was unusually demonstrative for a Wellington gathering, and when the steamer moved away they cheered the men and Her Majesty most heartily, the band at the same time playing "The Girl I Left behind Me."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10428, 28 April 1897, Page 5
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90THE MILITARY CONTINGENT. New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10428, 28 April 1897, Page 5
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