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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1354, 10 February 1898, Page 26

In reply to letters enquiring for the badges and colours of regiments that served in New Zealand, Mr W. H Skinner, of New Plymouth, has received communications, accompanied by the desired information, from Colonel Byam, of the Royal Marine Light Infantry, and from Major Abdy, Secretary to the Royal Artillery Infantry. The copies of colours, photographs, &0., will be forwarded to the Rev Canon Walsh, of Waimata North, Bay of Islands, who yery generously offered to paint the remaining hatchments to be placed in £t. Mary’s Church. Colonel Byam directed his staff officer to express his and his brother officers’ high appreciation of the kindly sentiment which suggested a memorial to their comrades who fell in the performance of their duty. The Postal Department is advised through the Union Steam Ship Company that the Alameda, with London mails of January 22, left San Francisco for Auckland on 4th inst., being one day late. A meeting of property-owners at Seatoun is to be held at Worser Bay on the evening of Monday, the 14th instant, relative tp the proposed wharf at the bay,