RETURNING NEW ZEALANDERS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 145, 13 July 1901, Page 3

RETURNING NEW ZEALANDERS

THIS WELCOME Ar IXVEROAKGILL. SOMETHING! WOnTHY OB "OUR BOYS." Tnteecarqill July 12. The retoroe 1 troopers arrived at the Bluft this moraing. Tfeey were met by the Governor, Mr Mills, and a great assemblage. The town was g-y with banting and greenery, all the district bands and volunteer corps being in attendance. The weathrr was perfect, and the reception p-omiss to be a brilliant success ' Brilliant sur-shice after a were frost made t K « loverosrgill decoratims kok gay as the t*f<op train eteiace<l in at 11.39 a.m., theirarrival being & signal for rounds of cheering from a very large gathering of people- The contingents having been formed up outride of the staticn, where a stand bad been erected, Rev. Luxford offered up a prayer, and the Ven. Archdeacon Storkef, addressing the meeting, siid they would never realise the anxiety that had be'n felt for thtm until they .themselves sent eons on & similar miraicn. After singing the "Old Hundredth," L"rd Ranfurly, who "waa received with cheers, said he had extreme pleasure in weltoming the men back. They bid fu'fi led the task allotted to them with credit t < themselves and the colony. New Zfloland was proud of the way her sons had conducted themselves, and of thymines Rppeaiing in dispatches. We ted all not here who "left fu r shores. Some Iwd been taken, aiid.theT memories wou'd ever be gre n jn the annals of the colony as of brave men who had giv«n up their lives f< r their Sovereign and the honour of-their country. In the name of the people of New Zeal nd he heariily welcomed them borne. (Cheers.)

Tho Mayor (Mr Iynguet) we'corned (be men on behalf of the citizens. Hon. 0. Mil's faid it was a fa'-t to be proud of that colonial i had provfd thcm=e'vfs soldiers io word and dted. Liter on the experience they baH gained would t e of afsistanc? in the councils of the cation. He>po'ogisd for the absence of the Premi r and Sir JoB ph Ward, aDd on bthalf of the Min'stry, Par-lament, and Colony, expressed a very hearty ws-l'om". Three cbeera for the Governor acd contingents having been give' l , the con , in"eat < ', volunt er corps, Garriso", City, Pipe, atd rfis'r'c'. binds marched along the ft 1 eats to the Zeilardia Hall, The principal toast c , the Fourth and Fifth Contingent", was propo ed by Mr. Haran, and refponded to by Color.el Davie*. During the afternoon the troops went to Quern's Park, where bis Excellency distributed war medals an" wit-essed a parade and march pf.st. A prcg amme of spai te and military items w»s got off and the troopers wtre afterwards taken off by hostesses to tea. In the evdair.g a conversazione wa c held. A. torchlight procession passed through the principal streets. The centre pf the town presented a brilliant

s'ow, many business places beinfc e.o a?ed and illuminated. Tie railway ftition mu!e a fine disjlay, an lectric pat having bie i irnporei for tie purp to Wi h a few • xc<p iors the rrturmcl trooptrs 'o ke<l vpv, fit. . SAD TERMINATION OF THE DEMONSTKATIONS. A FIREWORKS FATALITY. Latee. A shosking fatality occur, ed during the fireworks display to-night. A b mab went off boriz intjaily among thi crowd, and txplcded in the face of Mrs Sneyd, an aged widow. She was struck full in the W, and kill-d. Her son had a great wound in tha thigh, «Ld his wfe is ssriously bruised all over, land has contused wiunds causfd by fragments. Their soa is nl o injured, fireworks were also lesporifible for other injuries, more or less s- rious>. In all six persons ar< in the hospital in connection with the bomb expl shn. DEATH OF ANOTHER RETURNED Han. Done' ik, July 12. Trooper F. W, Firles, who retun ed by tha Tagus sufficing from seveie pneunyicia, di d to-day. He joine i the Fif'h Continue't from the Thames nds i i Dumdin, and the' present intei>t (.n is to give him a m>liUiry fliteral on Sunday.