COLONIAL TROOPS.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 3956, 23 January 1900, Page 7

COLONIAL TROOPS.

LONDON, January 21. Colonel Brabant, officer conmuiiKliug Brabant’s Horse, one of the regiments of irrc&ufars receutlyf. raised in' Cape Colony, has been promoted to the rank of Brigadier, and .now commands a strong division of colonial irregulars. SYDNEY, January 22. Tho fund providing for equipment and despatch of tho hushmen’a contingent now amounts to £22,700; Five Norfolk Islanders have arrived hero to join the contingent. MELBOURNE, January 22. Thu Victorian Government entertained tho New South, Wales, Queensland, and Tasmanian contingents—which are now passing through Melbourne—at the Exhibit ion Building. The Tasmanians hare embarked by tho s.s. Moravian lor South Africa. (Received January 23, 11.30 p.m.) SYDNEY, January 22. Tho Secretary of State for the Colonies has cabled that Lieutenant Howling (of tho New South Wales i.anccrs) who v;a« captured last week when a mounted colonial patrol was ambushed near Rensberg, has been sent to Pretoria, He had been wounded in tho check end also in one of his legs. The Hon Robert. Philp, Premier ot Queensland, has intimated to the authorities that his colony proposes to contribute 150 men to the bushmen’s contingent, tho Government bearing the whole ,of tips ejepenss-.. Three hundred horses are to bo sent, half of them being remounts for thp first contingent. The South Australian' Government intimates that that colony will find fifty bushmen.