DISTURBANCE IN CAMP

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7047, 8 February 1910, Page 1

DISTURBANCE IN CAMP

OFFICER “ARRESTED.’' SOME SERIOUS ALLEGATIONS. OoiU'Ospon'deiTC-o Jias reached this office which indicates that a scandalous incident lias occurred in connection with a volunteer encampment at the Lower Hutt, resulting In the arbitary “arrest" of one of - the officers concerned. It ds stated that insulting language and fisticuffs were incidents of the proceedings, and that considerable sympathy is felt for tho officer .arrested who ‘is alleged to have suffered great iirovocatiion. The officer under arrest is Captain Dalrymxde, of the Dominion Scouts, but no information can so far bo obtained as to tho charge mad© against him. So far as can bo ascertained it seems to be undoubted that his tent at the camp was visited late at night by another person; that high words followed and that blows were oxchanged. There were witnesses to this. • . Early next morning Captain Duigan, Engineer Instructor, who was in charge of tho camp, personally intimated to Captain Dalrymplo that he had to consider himself under arrest, that the corps would for., the remainder of the encampment be under the command of Lieutenant Hastings. It follows, of course, that an inquiry will bo held into this affair, which is understood to have several* very disconcerting features. ■ The sooner it takes place the better in view of the general scandal, it has created. - ‘ ‘