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jfco comply with your request. — I am, etc., " J. F. Abnold."

■Mr James Mills, chairman of the Otago [Patriotic Fund "Committee, on the 25th telegraphed -to' the -Premier the substance of the {resolutions passed at Tuesday evening's meeting as to the manner in which it was detired the funds in this district should be administered. In the evening he received the following reply, from the Premier : — ." Your telegram received. lam pleased to ihear that ' you have decided to establish a trust ancl appoint trustees. So far all the obgect I had -in view in the matter has been 3biained, and I trust there will be jao objecifcieri to legislation so long as it is consistent with the views of your subscribers."

jTrooper W. A. Saunclers desires to make a correction in .that portion of his interview with a- member of- our staff referring to hospitals. . He did not intend to" cay that he liad been in all the hospitals in South Africa, but;_had been in all sorts of military hospitals, but not as a patient.

-Inquiries made at' "Wellington have elicited ihe fact (says the Timaru Herald) that the "Private 35\ P.' Brown. Timaru,"-. repdrted by" ■ cable- 'from. Major Cradock as haying- died of enteric fever, was Frank Percy Bourn, a son. of Mr Chas.' Bourn, Timaru. His name was -wrongly entered on the list of jthe second" contingent as Brown, and probably only his number, 501; was cabled by Major Oradock. . , The Timaru -Herald states that Mrs Jowsey has "received "a cattle from the Major, -which States that they (he and his son) are both in Pretoria and doing. well. It also stat« that Captain Bourn has been captured, but is all right. -