NEW ZEALAND VOLUNTEERS FOR THE SOUDAN.
'.UNITED PREBB AksQCliTjON.) Dunedi^ Feb. 24. Messrs F. Fulton, J. Jordan, and W: Lowery waited on the Premief in' reference to the proposal to raise a force here for service m the Soudan. They submitted to the Premier that 100 men who could probably be got together and asked should their services be accepted, that the Government should' assist the movement by giving free railway transportation and providing arms. The Premier •promised to bring the matter before his colleagues at Wellington next week, and to forward an answer. Aitcklaitd, Feb. 24. Mr A. D. Bennet's office was besieged by applicants tbis morning, specially desiring their names to be placed on the roll of his proposed free naval contingent. Among them were .several exnaval officers, with excellent discharges from the Royal Navy, and one with special certificates on torpedo and big gunnery and marine mine, 'working. Mr G. Hazell, late Bough-riding Ser-geant-Major m Her Majesty's service, and now of the Biding School oft .*the New North road, has communicated with the Minister of Defence, offering if required his own services and the use of his Riding School for th« instruction of a cavalry troop m mounted and dismounted drill with swords, carbines, and lance exercises, free of all charge.^if it is determined to send such a. force to the Soudan.
Agonizing Neuralgic Pains. — Baxter's Auti-Neuralgic. Fills, have been named by the public " Mngic Pills " on account of their ' marvellous action m curing Neuralgia, Toothache^ Sciatica, Lumbago, and other Neuralgic 1 pains. — To be post free on receipt of 19 or 44 postage stamps.— J. Baxter, Chemist, victoriastreet Cliristchwch
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 72, 26 February 1885, Page 2
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273NEW ZEALAND VOLUNTEERS FOR THE SOUDAN. Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 72, 26 February 1885, Page 2
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