DECLINES TO PROCEED TO THE SEAT OF WAR.
liist-class shot. He was employed as shoithand teacher, and was a popular member of the Company, being also thought highly of by his officers His mother lives at Paeioa with two of her M>iis o i tin 1 Urm, another son is in the employ ol a seed merchant, and the fourth is in the service of tho Railway Department at Eltham. CIIBISTCHUHCH, Januaiy 18. The Luicolnshi'.e, which leaves for South Africa, Ma Albany, to-moiroi\, takes 25,000 satk-j of oat 1- and other fodder, nlbo the nurses who volunteoied foi service. . !
"HE NEVER WILL BE MISSED." WELLINGTON, January 18. Buflor Chegwin, of the Contingent, declined to piocced to South Africa unless it was guaranteed that lie be promoted to the rank of sergeant, alleging that he was senior to Fox, who went with the first Contingent, and was made a sergeant. The authorities were not prepared to give the necessary guarantee, and Chegwin, declining to Bign tho agreement, has left the camp.
AUCKLAND, January 18. Private John Aitken Connell, killed in South Africa, was a private in the ColJeeo Rifles for sc\eral years. The deceased was. about 23 years of age, and a
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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9941, 18 January 1900, Page 3
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