NEW ZEALAND'S EFFORTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 4, 28 February 1900, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND'S EFFORTS.

Woodville, February 27. Our contribution to the Patriotio Fund amounts to £175. At a meetin ius-, night it was decided ta send to the Mansion House Fund, £Sfmn ■ the Hawko's Bay More Mim FtmdJaad' £25 to the VVeliyigcbfi More Won Fund. sum wag voted to mat Troop-Sergeant Grant's equipment will not cost Wellington anything. Ciiristchuech, February 27. In connection with the Press More Men Fund the editor states thai it hj" been decided to present each member of the .Fourth Contingent with a box of - comforts similar to those given to previous contingents. With this object a letter has been sent to the manager of the Gear Company, Wel- | lington, forwarding an order for 250 i tins of extract of meat and asking to j be allowed to pay for tbem, as the Company had previously given a quantify as aft ee gift. The Company, however, sent three cases free, which makee & donation of about 1000 tins free. Later. The executive of the Patriotic Jfaod '.his morning cabled another XIOOO to the Lord Mayor of London, and the sum of £SO has bean forwarded to Trooper Hunt, who was injured* on board the Waiwera when with the First Contingent. Dunbdin, February 27. The camp roll this morning numbered 221 men, which moans that 70 men from Otago and Southland have yet to be excluded. " ' Auckland, February 27. The net proceed* of the Military Carnival oa Saturday were £550. The total of Bough-riders' Fund is £3BOO. Thirty-five applications have been j received by Colonel Binks for the Fifth Contingent reserve. He intend* selecting a number of volunteers from the list of those rejected by the eeleation committee of the Fourth Contingent 'owing to inability to provida tlnir own horses. The list embrace! highly efficient volunteers and mark*nun.