Seventh Contingent.

Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 46, 23 February 1901, Page 2

Seventh Contingent.

A STARTLING TELEGRAM,

MEN TO REPORT THEMSELVES AT ONCE.

MUST GO BY STEAMER TO-MORROW.

A telegram was received last night from Colonel Porter by Major McCredie, the enrolling officer at Gisborne, asking that tho quota of men (ten) bo selected according to the standard, and that they ho forwarded to Wellington by Sunday’s steamer; from Napier they arc to take tho train and go overland. "Tho men arc subject to final acceptance in Wellington. Tho order for such speedy enrolment comes as a surprise, and it is probablo that some of the men who have applied will not bo able to get nows of tho early departure until the men selected havo been sent on. The men are to attend this evening to receive instructions, and to-morrow morning, at Captain Winter's paddock, they will bo tested in field exorcises by Major McCredie and Captain Winter. APPLICANTS AT GISBORNE. The following applications for enrolment in the Soventli Contingent (Gisborne’s quota being ten) have boon received by Major McCredie, who has been instructed by the Defence Department to superintend the enrolling of volunteers:— Archibald Parker, Gisborne Archibald Alex. Hepburn, Gisborno Arcliio B. Curtis, Tokomaru James Alexander Bruce, Tokomaru T. W. Martin, Tokomaru Henry Martin, Tokomaru James Lloyd, Tokomaru Daniel Buckley, Patutahi R. S. Broingan, Gisborno William Leonard Cato, Gisborno M. F. Collins, Gisborno E. A. Guildford, Tatapouri Matthew Dwyer; Gisborno Elias Partridge, Gisborno Percy Walter Teesdalc, Waimata T. Richard Porter, Motu

MEN TO REPORT THEMSELVES AT ONCE.

SOME WEEDY APPLICATIONS.

TENDERS EOR SUPPLY OE BOOTS.

[By Tolegrapb—Pross Association.] Christchurch, last night. Canterbury has boon allotted ill men for the 7th Contingent, and out of the 1110

who applied 50 havo boon ordered to report themselves at ' lie local dcfenco office at once. About th,.rty came into town yesterday, and arc now in camp at tho drillshcd ground. They will undergo a medical examination, and afterwards will be put through their facings by Sorgt.Major Coleman, who drilled tho previous contingents. Those who have gone into camp are rather a woody lot, and several of them will not pass tho medical test. Tho Dcfenco Department has called for tenders for supplying 2400 pairs of boots for the 7th Contingent on samples shown at the local offices. The local manufacturers considered tho samples of such an inferior nature that several of them declined to tender jjn them, and sent to Wellington their own samples with tenders, and tho tender of Messrs M. O’Brien and Co. was accepted, for. their own samples.

VOLUNTEERS AT NELSON. Nelson, last night. Twenty-six men have volunteered in town for the Sevonth Contingent, but only eleven will be accepted.