THE EIGHTH CONTINGENT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11843, 21 December 1901, Page 5

THE EIGHTH CONTINGENT.

OVER 400 AUCKLAND APPLICATIONS. : Tho Auckland Brigade Office had tip to yesterday received no less than 410 applications for enrolment in the Eighth Contingent, of which number 38 applicants are desirous of commissions.. This . large number allows of an extended choice being made, since only 140 men are required to represent this district. :We are asked to once more draw the attention of the applicants to. the district order appearing .in our advertisemen); columns in this issue, which requires them, to attend at the Choral Hall on Monday next, between nine a.m. and five p.m., for examination by the Recruiting Board. [BY TELEGRAPH.PRESS ASSOCIATION.] . . Napier, Friday. ■ Seventy-five applications have been received for the Hawke' Bay detachment of the Eighth Contingent. The number _ includes six returned troopers. Applications : are being received by every mail. Wellington, Friday. • The question whether members of : the Eighth Contingent can remain in South Af- | rica after their term of engagement has ex- j \ pired, has been settled. They must come - back. An exception will be made in cases of men who obtain appointments and are recommended to be allowed to remain s by the j officer commanding tho contingent. ' T•! The steamers Cornwall and Surrey have I been selected for the conveyance r of the Eighth Contingent for South Africa. One will leave Wellington, and the other Lyttelton. The steamer which leaves Wellington, probably about January 20, will call at Auckland to pick up the horses and Northern section of the contingent. ' •\ • • OiiEiSTcnTTKCH, Friday. - ; Tenders have been let for supplies for tho South Island division of the Eighth Contingent. The Kaiapoi Woollen : Company , are the successful tenderers for the major, portion of r the supplies. Applications are still being received locally from those desirous of joining the contingent. . There are no returns from those applying in country districts as yet, which is taken as an indication that the recruiting'' officers are being kept very busy. - „ ■ ; :■ . - ■■■■ ;■ ■ • 4 ATTITUDE OF WELLINGTON TRADES COUNCIL. s ANTI-WAR MOTION CARRIED BY A SMALL MAJORITY. PRESIDENT RESIGNS. : [BY telegraph.PßESS ASSOCIATION.] Wellington, Friday. . The Wellington Trades Council carried last night, by 12 to 10, a resolution: " Condemning and repudiating the action of the Government in undertaking to send further troops to South Africa to assist in waging a hideous and unholy war of extermination, which we believe was begun and if: now carried on entirely in the interests of capitalists." It was stated that in the present position of the colony's finances, which had let! to tho discharge of a large number of workers, the Government were not justified in sending a further contingent. It . was decided to ask other trades councils to take similar action. Mr. Naugliton president of the _ Trades Council, has resigned as a protest against the above anti-war resolution, which, he says, in no way represents the opinions of the great mass of unionists or of the Labour party generally. ( NEW ZEALANDEES INVALIDED. [BY telegraph.—press ASSOCIATION.] . Wellington, • "Friday.' . The Government nro advised from the front that Arthur Woodwaftl, of the Six Contingent, was severely wounded in ' the thigh at Brakfontein on the 13th inst. LanccCorporal Haj, of the Seventh Contingent, is severely ill at Charfestown, with a contused back. : MEMORIAL AT DEVONPORI. A short time ago Mr. C. Dacre wrote to the Dcvonport Borough Council requesting the Mayor to call a meeting of the residents to find ways and means for a memorial to the two North Shore troopers who died at the Boer war. A meeting was held and a committee of ladies and ; gentlemen formed to raise the sum ot £100.' This amount was raised in three weeks, and an order has been sent to j England for a handsome< fountain centre, and a drinking fountain, which will be placed in the Council Chamber reserve.