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Dunkdin, February 22.
Up to noon yesterday Mr Fulton had received applications from sixty persons willing to undertake military service in the Soudan. One female offers to go as a nurse. The Port Chalmers Naval Artillery hare also volunteered to go. Christchurch, February 22.
There is great enthusiasm among the volunteers here in regard to proceeding to the Soudan.- Several officers tnd men hare expressed their readiness to join a New Zealaad contingent if iormtd. It is calculated that '2OO partly drilled me* could be enrolled.
Wellington, February 23.
A.. D. Bennett, formerly of the Wellington Navals, in company with the Mayor, waittd upon Sir Julius Vogel and offered a free volunteer-naval contingent of 000 men, composed ef ex-navstl men, armed constabulary, and volunteers, each company of 100 men to be under a Lieutenant who has previously seen service, corps to be raised in six weeks in the Auckland district. Vogel said the offer with others from other parts of the Colony vrould he considered at a Cabinet netting this \veek.
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Lyell Times and Central Buller Gazette, Volume V, Issue 211, 28 February 1885, Page 2
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173LATEST TELEGRAMS. Lyell Times and Central Buller Gazette, Volume V, Issue 211, 28 February 1885, Page 2
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