THE COLONIAL TROOPS.
NEW ZEALANDERS HEARTILY WELCOMED. Capetown, November 26. The New Zealanders met with a striking reception at Capetown, They are at present encamped at Green Point, awaiting the arrival of the Canadian and Australian contingents, when all will be welcomed by the Mayor. OPERATIONS IN NATAL. Durban, November 24. General Hildyard has made a sortie in the direction of Willow Grange. THE WAR RELIEF FUND. London, November 24. The war relief fund has reached £320,000. GENEROUS GIFTS. London, November 24. Mr. Wills, the well-known tobacco manufacturer, has donated half-a-million cigarettes for. the wounded. , Bewlays' Company, another comdon firm of tobacconists, have given 21,000 cigars for the troops, .
HOSPITAL SHIPS. London, November 24. The balance of the Princess of Wales' old Soudan relief fund will be used for fitting a large hospital ship for the Transvaal with the latest appliances. The French Red Cross organisation has given medical instruments, and the Duke of Newcastle Ronrgcn apparatus, for the above-mentioned hospital ship. The London subscription towards the American hospital ship fund is £30,000. RUSSIAN DUTCH AND THE WAR. St. Petersburg, November 24. The Dutch residents in Russia have subscribed 55,000 roubles to send Russian doctors and nurses and 40 beds to the Transvaal. , I
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11230, 27 November 1899, Page 5
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