RETURNING SOLDIERS.

Timaru Herald, Volume CVIII, Issue 1682, 31 May 1919, Page 7

RETURNING SOLDIERS.

ARRIVAL OF PAKEIiiV. SOUTHERN MEN ON THE "WAY. (Per Press Association). WEJjMN'&TONi May 3d., The troopship I&keba arrived in the stream about j{ p.m. jind berthed ail 4.30. Though the evening was Wist aim extremely cold, several thousand people assembled to me©b the returned men. The Wellington Motor Volunteer .Corps did good work ih taking men to thS-r destinations. The AucikJahd men left/ by special train ait 7.15 p.m. and the Southern men left by the Maori, aihd the Martborougli, Nelson and West Coast contingent were. taken by the Patceua, which was hold uiital 5.30 for the purpose. E3NDNBSS OF: AMEMCANS.

The Pakeha, reihaiiied ai Newport) Newß five days to coal, and during thaib time the men went inlbo a big Am§riidan campi, where tliey were htoiiard iii spinous well built liiitmenibs. The, veSel wiis six hours at Caion, where the iiien. were hospitably treated by the ffeideiits. FATAL ACCIDENT ON BOAftt). The arrival of the transpbrti in tba Dominion was saddehefd by aih afceideht, which <j6urred aboard on Tkiliscfay. It appears that two soldiers gjoit ih-to si heaited atgumenifc oh the main d'fck, and eventually came to blows, in which Sergeant-Ma jor Sartiuel Stanley Ohoate,_ of fell heavily back, his head cradhinig on thf' fei®e of ah iron winch. Chlorate's skull was fractured, and .he died almost immedSatfely. The otiiei- man obneeriied in the dispute was placed under arrest' and a court-martial will be helfcl.