OUR EIGHTH CONTINGENT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 12, 15 January 1902, Page 3

OUR EIGHTH CONTINGENT.

Wblluotoh, January 14. . 4 Lieutenancies in the Eighth Oon- , tuigeot bave been given to Messrs Mansan, Morris, and Foster. Morris was instructor to the Hawke's Bay members of the Third and Fourth Contingents, and was a member of the Recruiting Board of the Eighth. Foster was a member of tbe First Contingent, In which he btcame a. sergeant. Two vttsrinary surgeons have been appointed, A. R. Young for the Siuth Jsland Bittalion, and Ulaytou to the ... Jforth Battalion. ■ Bart and Company., the owners of the Cornwall and Surrey, contract to cany the Eighth Contingent to Cape Town at following rates Officers £3O, men £l3, hoists £ls; also to erect i borwstalls and fit oat men's quarters tiffree of charge, and provide water and food, etc. . The Premier anticipates the Con's wiU aw Zealand on the SRhinst, ,

OTAGO PRESBYTERY AMD PROBOERIHM. •- , Dottsdh, January 14. The on the motion of Rev. R. R. M. Sutherland, seconded fcyMr E. B. Cargil, unanimously resolved "That the Presbytery have no sympathy with the veiled but unmistakable pro-Boerisra of the actingeditor of the Outlook, and express deep regret that he should use his position to write -what he must have known would be an offence to his readers and misrepresent the, churches, whose organ the Outlook ii"