MEN & HORSES.
BIG MUSTER AT MOUNT COOK.,
About 175 more mounted men from the Taranaki district arrived in Wellington by train early yesterday morning, • and' proceeded to Mount Cook without being molested,. Thero are now almost 1000 men in camp. Tho Mount Cook Schools having all beon closed on account, of tho disturbance, the use of tho infants' and boys', schools has been granted by tho Education Board to tho authorities, who havo to make arrangements for' quartering tho men. Two truck loads of horses arrived from the Manawatu about noon yestorday._ A large contingent of mountod "specials" attended at Lambton, to take charge of the new arrivals. - As the procession passed on to tho Quay from the station yard there was somo joering and abuse, but no intorferenco. Tho cavalcado travelled to Bucldo Street, via the Terrace. T .
Colonel Newall is in command of the specials. Ho was in charge of one of the Now Zealand contingents sent to South Africa,' and was afterwards .officer commanding tho Wellington volunteer district. .'
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1898, 5 November 1913, Page 7
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171MEN & HORSES. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1898, 5 November 1913, Page 7
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