THE SIXTH CONTINGENT.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 9035, 2 January 1901, Page 2

THE SIXTH CONTINGENT.

♦ . .'- ■ ■ ■ . (Per Press Association.) : WELLINGTON, this day. ■' There are over 250 applicataions here for the Sixth Contingent, At Dunedin 284 applications have been received. Twenty-nine have applied at Oamaru. 'AUCKLAND, this day. The volunteers for the Sixth Contingent were put through the various tests yesterday. Colonel Banks complimented several of the officers upon' volunteering for service and being content to rank as privates in the contingent. CHRISTCHURCH, this day. The number of applicants for enlistment in the Sixth Contingent is now over 200. No instructions have been received as to despatch of the men to Wellington. Major McCredie yesterday showed us a telegram, received from LieutenanfiColonel Porter concerning. the Sixth Contingent. Applications are coming in fast, and Gisborne's draft must leave by the 6th, reach Wellington; by the Bth, -and be in uniform by the ,12th. The proposal to extend the time ft>r enrolment has, it will thus be seen, been unsuccessful, and it is further stated that if the draft is not got away sharp there will be a danger of the men being shut out. Local applicants will note these .,- facts, and also the advertisement which appears in, another column, fixing the riding tests for Thursday morning in Captain Tucker's paddock. An effort is being made to have the Bhooting tests to-morrow afternoon. Following is the complete list of names of those so far enrolled in Gisborne for service in the Sixth Contingent: James Mackinley, age 23, East Coast Mounted Rifles; Herbert Bushnell, Murewai; James Henlow, age 25 ; Guy Humphries, age 24, Kaitefatahi ; Frank Huddlestone ; Williamson, Tuparoa; -Ernest Albert Skeet, 31 years; James Henry James, John Barry, Robert Henry McGough, Thomas Allen, Thomas McKay, Arthur John Cooper, Cecil Bertrand DeLautour, Thomas Ogden, Daniel Buckley, William F. Coyle, Abraham Hamson, James Higgs, John Malloy Grayson, age 28; James Ryan, age 20, height sft 7in, weight list ; John Norman Leslie, 22, East Coast Mounted Rifles, and Melbourne Militia two years; Ernest Chas. Hurrey, 26, Whangara; Ernest Albert Guilford, 23, Glenroy ; Irving Stanley Hurrey, 28, Whangaroa ; John Joseph Lawless, Chas. John Denny, Uames Kenneth Campbell, William Mcßurney, Chas. Whitlock, 23 ; Chas. Glass, 23, four years' service New South Wales ; Thomas James Craig, 21 ; Ernest Richardson, 24, Waimata ; Robert Watson, 27 ; Percy' Walter Teesdale, 23, sft lOin, list, two years in Bruce Rifles, Otago; Albert Law, 21, East Coast Mounted Rifles (can supply his own horse); Peter MacDermott, 30; Ernest James Jones, 20, sft 9in, list 41b ; Matthew Francis Bourke* 24, sft Bin, list, four years in the Kaiapoi Cadets; James Arthur Moore, 21 ; George Adams, 24, sft 7in, list 31b.