New Zealand

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 98, 1 December 1915, Page 3

New Zealand

THE EIGHTH REINFORCEMENTS. Per Press association. '"** Wellington, November 'SO. A cablegram, whicli has readied the Government states that the transports conveying the Eighth Ueinl’oroo meats encountered very had we a tiler alter leaving New Zealand, but the conditions are now improving, and the men are getting their sea legs and recovering from sea-sickness. There is no illness on board. » DEATH OF LI EUT.-COLONEL STEWART. Wellington, November .‘lO. A Dundin telegram says that cable advice has been received of the death, at Lemnos, from dysentery, of Lieut.Colonel Stewart, of Crookston, a brother of the member for Dunedin West. Deceased was in charge of the Canterbury Mounted Rifles, and was on the transport Southland when that vessel was torpedoed.

DALMATIANS WANT TO SERVE. ■; ri\. J j E ;i| ij ;■ * i , j;f OFFER OF REGIMENT FOR SERBIA,., • Per Press Association. Auckland, December 1.. Bartel Mihalfevic, a native of Didmatia and late editor of the newspaper Zova, has written to Lord Liverpool urging, that a special Ci'oa* tiftii regiment he formed in N»w Zealand for service in Serbia. Already forty Croatian volunteers in the Whangarei district A have intimated, their willingness to enlist if the New Zealand Government will accept their services. Mr Massey replied: “I have much appreciated the patriotic spirit which prompted you to offer yourselves for the defence of your country. 1 shall be glad to confer with the Minister of Defence with a view to seeing whether it is possible to give effect to your request.”