NEW ZEALAND'S SECOND CONTINGENT.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 8699, 19 December 1899, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND'S SECOND CONTINGENT.

■3_ ]'.'. (Per Press Atsooistion.) ''■.'-'.■;.■' ■- - W.-t_tHG-ON. this day. "'' Volunteere are already offering for a ■;'p- second Transvaal contingent. The HereTv'.taungaHoMe, who sent seventeen in the vfiflrat 1 contingent, will supply an equal :,; number, and the Defence Department have ■'..! L',rreceived over twenty other applications. -F. . It i.4 understood that plenty of horses ;£ ■ are-available. t:.--v Mr John Plimmer, has written to the ;■:/: Mayor asking.him to start a subscription ■; ? I*lief: in aid. of those already gone, aud . proffering ona hundred guineas to head ■ ;ithejist. If another contingent is sent he '■./"'promisesanother hundred. *: . Dunbdin, This day. , ;: Ab a parade of the Otago Rifle Battalion to consider the question of offering a contingent for South Africa, an address was . V. given by Major B. B. Smith, who said he . fdid not want to get a snatch vote. He .asked those who.thought of volunteering .to take twenty-four hours aud hand i_ i their names to the officers next night. " Onoei the names were in there should be no ' ' drawing back.. He had had his twenty- ■ fonr hours, and was prepared to go, not as ' Major, because he had not had time to perfect himself in the duties of that position sufficient to command in the field, but if he could go in oharge ot the Otago part \ - of $be contingent he would do so. Donedin, This day. A Highlanders Fund is being raised here and one hundred pounds has been cabled to Sootland to-day for widows and orphans of the Gordons and Black Watch.