MOUNTED SPECIALS.
A THOUSAND MEN IN WELLINGTON. COLONEL NEW ALL IN CHARGE. Last Night. About 175 more mounted men from the Taranaki district arrived in Wellington by train early this morning, and proceeded to' Mount Cook without molestation. Thero are now almost 1000 men in camp. . v . The Mount Cook schools having all been closed on account of tho disturbance, the use of the infants and "boys schools have been granted by tho Education Board to the authorities, who have to make arrangements for quartering the men. Colonel Stuart Newall, C.8., who was 'in charge of one of the N.Z. contingents sent to South Africa, and was afterwards officer commanding the Wellington Volunteer district, is to have command of the mounted specials' now in Wellington. ' '
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 5 November 1913, Page 5
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125MOUNTED SPECIALS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 5 November 1913, Page 5
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