THE PAPANUI'S MEN LEAVE FOR WELLINGTON.

Otago Witness, Volume 26, Issue 2419, 26 July 1900, Page 29

THE PAPANUI' S MEN LEAVE FOR WELLINGTON.

The seven invalided officers and troopers who arrived here by the Papanui left Dunedin yesterday by the 7.40 a.m. train for Port Chalmers, accompanied by Mr D. A. De Mans (Mayor of Port Chalmers). Mr T. W. Kempthorne (chairman of the Organising Committee) accompanied them to the Dunedin railway station, where he bade them erood-bye, but there was no other ceremony. The Papanui sailed from Port Chalmers about 10 o'clock, bound for Wellington direct. There was no formal ceremony, but a very large number of Port Chalmers peoule assembled at the wharf to bid the men God-speed. His Worship the Mayor and Mrs De Maus, the officers of the Port Chalmers Naval Artillery, and most of the leading citizens of the town were present, and hearty cheers were given for the returned soldiers as the Papanui cast off from the wharf. The men expressed themselves as highly delighted with the reception they had received, and the attention that had been paid them in Port Chalmers and Dunedin. Colonel Webb and Adjutant Stronach went down to Port by the 10 a.m. train, but on arriving they found the Papaiuii had left. Colonel Webb yesterday telegraphed to Port Chalmers that Lieutenant Lindsay, of Timaru, and Trooper W. A. Saunders, of Southland, should proceed to their homes by train, but it is' presumed that they did not receive the message in time to permit of their transferring their kit, and they proceeded to Wellington by the Papanui. Notices appear in the last issue of the Ga zette with reference to alterations in the •boundaries of the Otago deeds and land registration districts^ ]