NEW ZEALAND CONTINGENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 179, 9 July 1900, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND CONTINGENTS.

3 NEWS FROM THE HOSPITAL. 1 5 Wellington, July 8. j The Premier has received the follows ing cable from Sir Alfred Milner, dated i Capetown, 6th : —" The following mes--5 sage from Dr. De Renzi to the Premier ] has been received : —' Inspected Wyre--3 burg hospital. All Colonial patients 1 spoke well of medical treatment, nurl sing, and food. There ara only convalescent patients at Maitland hospital, and 1 they are doing well. No chest com--5 plaints.'" INVALIDED NEW ZEALANDERS. Wellington, July 7, j The Premier of Victoria has wired' Mr. Seldon that Taylor, who had re- , mained behind when the first batch of j New Z inland invalids left Australia, will be ft; to leave the hospital in a I fortnight. , The Premier has received the folj lowing cable from Mr. Pilcher: — " Pap itown, sth—Lieuts. Catiavan \ (IJljnheino), Heather (Auckland), Lindsiy (Tim-m), and Trooper Saunders , (-Suiiti.ila.nd) are returning to thecolony tiy tho Papmui." Also, on the same j date:-" The following are returning by tho Karamea; -Privates Davis (Waimangaroa), Findlay [there are i liree Findlays in the Contingents, and is is not clear who], Hurford (Doylesti n), Hilliar (Patea), Jackson (Dun--1 .-din), Meredith (Waikato). Newlick (Tuauv s), OrbeU(Waikcmiti), Strange i'e Aroha), Wilson [ten in the Oon•i -igents], Corporal Overton (Christhurch), Gunner Parsons (Ohristcliurch). The Jewish community interred Gunner Moeller at Bloemfonmia,"

ux Jowßuy reports that Private Knubley (Timaru) has recovered. Ddnedin, July 7. The invalided soldiers who returned by the Aotea are: —Sergeant-Major Gillespie, Kimberley Horse, a Blenheim resident; Corporal Hamilton, Blenheim ; Trooper Hope, Inglewood; Trooper Taylor, Wellington, but really of Oaiparu; Trooper Culling, Otago; and Trooper Smith, Waikato, all of the First Contingent. They arrived by train from south this morning, and were met by the Mayor and the Organising Committee and a largo numbur of the public, aud heartily welcomed, the Mayor making a wpecch. After Taylor and Culling had b.;un medically examined th 6 men were entertained at luncheon at the Grand Hotel, at which the Mayor presided. A number of toasts were proposed, Trooper Culling said he had been in three hospitals, and there was nothing in the complaints. Sergt,-Major Gillespie spoke in high terms of the lighting value of the New Zmilanders.