With the Third Contingent.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume II, Issue 140, 3 May 1900, Page 3

With the Third Contingent.

After the ship bad finished coaling and taking in water and stores at Albany we weighed anchor at fom o'clock, and bade goodbye to the folks Ths ship's head was turned seaward I -md off wp Ment for Durban. On li jhfcing the donkey boiler ten minutes "ter leaving two stowaways were disco veapd. All the men seem d better for the run ashore and settled down to wotk in real good ( bpirit* agnn. The weather was now vfry di/ioreni from what we had crossing oni» gr<->at Australian Bight. It was t«mbly hot, and tlits horses wero suffering much, es>puciully those in the 'tween decks, tha vjnbiltition bomg so bad, and but poor provision having been made for drainage. In the main hatch there were smy-eight hordes jammed togerhor, and what with the intense lie.it and sfcoiich, it hag becu a? mi* eh as the mon could do to stay below to food them. The sick YM has not been yery seveio. Trooper Dmg.in has bjeu laid up for about two weeks-, and is not quite right yet. Tiooper Vernall was ill the whole voyage. He is still far trom woll, and is likely to be laid aside for some time. Lieutenant Cameron tool: ill, after leaving Albany, with incarnation of the lungs, and has not been able to g^t out at all, but now the t doctor tells me he is getting on towardo recoveiy. All the lest ot the troops have got on very well, with the exception of trifling ailments, and aie now as fit as could be. Li-utenaut Biadburne had a nasty fall, but fortunately escaped with little injury. Ivib inspection has occupied our attention all this week. Coming away as we did in a hurry, many little things were overlooked. Each man had to bung his entire kit on dock, and the Sergeant- IvLvjor and Quarter master Seigeant went thiougb it, and took a list of whan was missing, and had it served out, so that not & man is shori of hu lot. Ifc is amusing to sco some who never owned such a host, of chattels before, puzzling their brains how to pack them up into the small space allotted. The following is a fuller account from !)he Dunulin Stirs correspo.ideut with the Thud Contingent, than was given in a telegram last issue, of the folly and resignation of Captain Eo^e : — *' I regret to have to chronicio that soon after leaving Albany Captain John Eose resigned. It happened thus :— On the voyage to Albany he took on a dunking boufc, and made himself very objectionable and ridiculous before the men of his company, but was got te bed. This grieved the 'Major greatly, but for the sake of outContingent he decided not to take action further than a severe reprimand. Eose solemnly promising not to touch any drink again while with the Contingent. That promise he again broke at Albany while in charge of the men en board, while the others were on leave. 110 made a disgraceful exhibition (taking one trooper by the collar and throwing him down, and putting his arms around another and kissing him). For&uiiateJy tli9re were not many visitors who saw it. The ship w/is just les.ving, and some of -tho officers tried to get him bolow, but he went down interfering in the stables, and the veteiinary surgeon reported the matter to the Major. Itose was taken to his cabin, whore he threatened to' " do for " somoono and commit suicide, and became troublesome — &o "much so that Major Jowsey deemed it necessary to ask him to resign his commission to sive himself being arrested and tried by court martial at Durban. This he finally did. and on the reoommenda- ' tion of a doctor was placed in a cabin with a guard over him for safety. Through the care that has been taken of him, he lias recovered, and has a, cabin to himself, and is simply a passenger. The Major was very reluctant to take this action but did"bis duty, though a mpst unpleasant oqe. The position has not been permanently filled, and will not be until we reach port. Lieutenant Lewin has been in charge of No. 1 Oomp.mv rvn. tern.'

An lushnmn, one uiue D _.i.ig on 'his holidays, paid a visit to Glasgow, and one day, while walking along one of the main streeis he. came opposite a grand gent email's re- idence with " Please ring the bell" printed on the doorway. Pat walked up and rang the bell. Out came one of the male servants and asked what he wanted. " I \yant nothing," replied Pat. " I only raug the bell because it said so." " Oh," says the servant. " I suppose 'you come horn the country where -the goatb glow on tne gooseberry bushes ?" " Oil, yes," lepuen Pat, ' and begorra, thpreis strange r 'sighis heie in Glasgow, too. You have only to ring the beii and the monkey pops oat." " I want to ask one more question," said little J?rank, as he was being put to bed. "Well," acquiesced the tired mamma. '• When " holes come in Blockings, what becomes of the piece of stocking, that \>asib.erje before the hole came ?"