NOTES ABOUT NEW ZEALANDERS. WELLINGTON November 21.
Captain Hume, son of Lieutenant-colonel Hume, and formerly of the New Zealand Permanent Artillery, has left South Africa J for England to undergo a year's military training at the Royal Artillery School, Shoeburyness, and the Hythe School of Musketry. Major Madocks is to be permitted to visit England before resuming his position as chief sfaff officer to the Commander of the Forces. The Imperial Government are willing to place a large order in New Zealand for grain for consumption in South Africa if prices are satisfactory. The Premier has been asked by Mr Chamberlain whether any members of tiie
New Zealand contingents . are to v go Home before returning , to the- colony, and has indicated "' that' 'if 'any" are" to.^' go they A should go from the first contingent. Colonel Robin has been -given the choice of going' to England if;. his men go, or of returning with tEe others to the colony. '
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Otago Witness, Issue 2437, 28 November 1900, Page 24
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