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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 241, 12 August 1902, Page 4

(Continue ' fro .1 p uir 1 the s'ck .it Albany h d be ( n com.uied with, four .ives wo ail Liu,>e ■ iecu saved. Colonel William-i, Di ector'ofi2ncr.il of the T .l ;-d:cai Army Corps, reported that the bospi:a 1 accommodation was insufficient, bue provision had been made for (be isolation of infectious diseas! s. He was convinced that every efford had oecn made by those in authority on board to deal with the state of affairs, otherwise the consequences would have been much more serious. Probably lives would have been saved it the sick had been lauded at Albany. Major-General Hutton, in conwring repods, siys the number of t oops a lotted the ship was nt t exceeded. Unquestionably t ! e upper deck accommodation was not adequate, and the number <£ hospital beds was inadequate according to the Admiralty regulations. The rough weather helped to spread sickness, as the men were unable to come on deck. It ippeared to him (hat the accommoua'ion provided under ordinary circumstances would have proved ub qnato, but owing to bad weather md Iho 10 ling steamer, in cons quenco of b inj light in draught, the effects weio serious. The mtbre; k of m asl‘S wac not sufficient to have cars d the discomfort the troops suffered. Sir .J. Lyn , after cansideraion of the reports, will decide if ■ urther action is necessary with regard to the Drayton Grange, Sioce removal to the hospital another trooper has succumb id to pneumonia. August 10. Sir \V. Dyne has decided to ipnoint a Dnyul Commission to mquire about the Drayton Grange. Sir D. Barton has been informed v of the facts. Perth, A ugusfc 8. -The Government intend (0 restrict the export .of cattle to South Africa, as they are required locally, Wellington, August 8. There is a case of smallpox on the troopship Orient, which arrived from tlie south this morning. The whole of the men have been quarantined, and vaccinated. The men who landed in the south are to be carefully examined and watched.

s' Sir William Russell has been appointed chairman of the Commission of Enquiry with regard to the troubles on the Britannic. Tha Commission will probably open its sittings on Tuesday, and the press ' will be admitted. Lieutenant Walter Calloway, who 1 has contracted smallpox on board the Orient, has had a long and honourable career with the New j Zealand Contingents. He hails I from Coromandel, where he worked !as a miner. His father is Mr John alloway, of Ivaikowhakarere, in the Aucldand district. Calloway served as a private in the First Contingent, and afterwards with the Seventh. He was invalided home, but the sea voyage reinstated him in health, and he awaited at \lbany until the Ninth arrived on the way to Durban, and returned with that force to the front. He was once dangerously wounded in the liver, but afterwards astonished everyone by making a complete recovery. He is ahalf-caste Maori of good physique. The work of vaccinating the men on the Orient is not,yet complete, but will be finished in the morning. By that time tents will have been erected on the island, and everyone will be brought ashore. The transport will then be subjected te a long-continued fumigation and cleaning.

August 10. Ihe smallpox patient is doing well, and there is no further outbreak. Two more of the Britannic’s men are ill. Mousfced died yesterday, Maicks is very bad, and Craig, Ryan, bleetwood, and Brown are dangerously ill. Johnstone is improving, and (he remainder are duing well.

CIIKISXCHUBCH, AllgUSfc 10. Ith regard to the Orient troopers, the ten men in hospital with measles ate all doing well. Orders have been given for all men who returned by that boat to report to the Defence Department. So far only about thirty have come in. These have been vaccinated by Dr Symes, District Health Officer. A military hospital is to be established close to the infectious diseases hospital at JBottle Lake, and a number of Permanent Artillerymen will pitch forty tents for them to-morrow. The names of all returned men have been furnished to the police, and any who do not report will be arrested. Dunedin, August 8. Captain-Chaplain Dutton, of the Ninth Contingent, confirms the mens complaints, saying that they aire well grounded.

The Health Department, with the assistance of the Defence Department, are collecting the whole of the men who landed here from the Orient. They will be placed in camp at Tahuna Park, and kept under observation.