THE COLONIAL DIVISION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 90, 17 April 1900, Page 3

THE COLONIAL DIVISION.

Receired 15,4.15 pin Londox, April 14. 1 General Button's Division include* all the Westralians except the Cavalry. He third corps of the division comprises Major Ricardo's Queenslanders and Major Robin's New Zealanders. lieut.-Colonel Martyn is chief staff officer of General Hutton's division; . Lord Rosmead, aide-de-camp ; Colonel . Hoad (Victoria), Assistant Adjutant- ; General; Major Bridges (New South i 'Wales) and M ajor Cartwright (Canada), • Assistant Adjutants. Colonel Gordon ] (South Australia) is the officer in f charge of communications, with Captain Rankin, of the Mounted Infantry in South Africa, as chief officer, and Major Yandeleur, of the Scots Guards, as advanced base transport officer. The four corps of the division will be wider the command of Colonels Alderson, De Lisle, Pilcher, and Henry. The first corps includes the force raised by Lord Strathcona; the second comprises ! Major Knight's N.S. Wales Mounteds and Captain Moore's Westralians; the < fourth, Colonel Price's Victorians, i Captain Reade's South Australians, i and Captain Cameron's Tasmanians. Each corps, with the exception of X.&. Wales, will be accompanied by a force of the Imperial mounted men and a battery of artillery, besides the Canadians' artillery and a number of Vickers-Maxims. The N.S. Wales Army Medical Corps, under Surgeon 1 Colonel Williams, will constitute thef' medical branch of the division.