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* NAPIER, July 28. ' A letter received by the last Cape mail slates that Captain Tanner, who left, with! the fifth contingent,' was attacked' with' dysentery and fever at Beira, and has been, ordered to return to New Zealand:

Trooper Taylor, No. 2 Gompany, first contingent, formerly attached to the Torpedo! Corps, Auckland, who was one of the firsti batch of invalids to return from South Africa, reached Dunedin by the steamer Mokoiaj from Melbourne on Tuesday. Trooper Taylor; was invalided from Grasspan, and four days after leaving the Cape was prostrated by .enteric fever. On his arrival' at Melbourne ho was taken to the Prince Alfred Hospital, and! remained there for seven weeks, meeting with the greatest possible kindness. He speaks most gratefully of the attention he received at the hands of the staff of the hospital, and also at the hands of the officers of the Victorian Defence department, who were unremitting in their endeavours to do all they could for him. In reference to his experiences of the hospital in South Africa, ha states that everything was done for him thati could be reasonably expected, when taking into account the fact that there was an enormous pressure of surgical and fever cases on all the " time. Members of the Organismg 1 Committee interviewed the returned trooper; at Colonel "Webb's, and showed the greatest solicitude for his welfare. Offers of assistance) were proffered, but these Trooper Taylor declined, not being in need of anything; Trooper Taylor's health is still anything buti I good, and for this reason he preferred to spend his time quietly, in place of accepting anything in the 'shape of entertainment^ though offers in this direction were made by--the committee. He goes, on- by the Mokoia to Wellington to -report himself at' headquarters. '