DOMINION WAR NEWS.

Timaru Herald, Volume CII, Issue 15579, 11 February 1915, Page 7

DOMINION WAR NEWS.

DEATH OF A MAORI. (Per Press A ssoci ation.) AUCKLAND, Feb. 30. A Maori youth named Aacra, who died in the hospital on Monday, was not a member of the Maori contingent: in camp here, as incorrectly reported in the morning papers, but a school boy from Three Kings. He had been living at Orakei since tie Maori camp began. The general health of the Maoris has been remarkably good. Soino three or four cases of typhoid hare occurred, none with serious consequences. AU the men in r&vnp have been inoculated and every precaution is being taken against infectious disease, particularly with the neir arrivals from the country districts. TTMARU MEN. PROMOTED IX EGYPT. Privates W. Palliser. T. Matibew*, snd F. Dunn have been made LancpCorporals in the machine-gun sectjnn of the Canterbury Reciment in ECFP*- Th} s > B die £™t official information received of promotions of Tiroaru men in Egypt. On bishalt of X«w Zealand she Government sent n. message of condolence 1<» Lord Haniurly on the death of his fioi;. I/onl Northland, and has received Die foKowing rep]v:— l, \Vo thank New Zealand for the "kind telegram. Wo nro proud that our only son gar* his life f<*r liis country. (SigmxTl R»nnfujly."'