N.Z. Contingent. A LETTER FROM CAMP.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume II, Issue 96, 16 January 1900, Page 3

N.Z. Contingent. A LETTER FROM CAMP.

IT. Goldsfcone, writing on baturr morning to A. Jackson say.i :- outpost duty we do is chiefly the racecourse or on the Mira,r sandhills. We do this m the j •mings, and the afternoons are, rotea to foot parades. We have ham fight on to-day ' whea our j np will ha attacked. All the i itingent went to the Opera the ; iernighd and sat in the dress ole n«xfc to the boxes occupied by j Governor and the Premier. Ie officers are a splendid lot of lows, and the non-coms are a 5 d smart lot, all picked from muted corps. Butcher and I ye taken up signalling and ) on the coutingent's signalling ,ff. We will most likely ,il 'on Saturday. The shooting !S t was 5 shots at 400 yds, am 1 sveral never hit the target. I lissed my first shot, but got the hers on, finishing with two bulls be afternoon after shooting, all ie South Island men who had orses and saddles went out to a rained swamp and practised ditch imping. 1 have a splendid hors -, Ithough very rough, and he jumps bout four feet above the ditches. |[c is a big bay cob. Butcher and tob have been out with us twice, ut have done no jumping. Yeserday we nil went to Miramar and ractised attacking by divisions, and iring with ball ciutndges at argets on the beach. The liding eat* is very severe but I have got h rough all mine now. I think S lurcher and Bob will gft thiough 11 light. The s.um hills, when ie tests take place arc \ery fatcep ml full of rabhit bolts, beside eing covered with scrub. This, ombiiifcii with Hie iact that mo i of the horses arc bnckjuinpert, oi the fiifet order, makes keeping in line none too easy. Colone Penton goes ahead and pick 3 out the stet-p pl.ices, and we b.ive to follow. I'd like to hear Low you or any of the boys, but ha\e veiy little time for wiiting.