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Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 129, 6 May 1885, Page 2

i age special.} (united press association.) (Pci 1 s.s. Kotomahana at the Bluff.) London, April 23. During the past two nights the rebels have kept np a continual fire into the camp at Otaoa, where a portion of the New South Wales infantry and Coldstream Guards afe stationed. Three of the Guards have been wounded by the enemy's fire. The Government have cabled to Colonel Richardson stating that if the New South Wales Contingent volunteered for service m India or elsewhere, the Colony would maintain them there, as they had undertaken to do m Egypt, and that all depended on the voluntary act of the contingent. Colonel Richardson was desired to communicate with the General on this subject, and to inform him that such members of the contingent as desired to return would be brought baok at the expense of the Colony.