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Men at Eimberley Camp. No. 1 Company— Sergeant-Major Burr; Sergeants Price and Tuck ; Corporal Home; Troopers Coutts, Enderby, Hogg, Watts, Valentine, Nops, Cameron, McLean, Gorrie, Gallaway, Curtain, Miller, Bachelor, Munro, Jewel, Locket, Mitchell, Wyllie, Mahood, Crawley, Matson, Whyte, Jane, Tetley, Tarrant, Barty, Wiffen, McDonald, Eiddel, Edwards, Palmer, Bodle, Brock, Payne, Muir, McCallum, Powell, Smith, Maunder, Hubbard, Gaudin, Dawson, Wooffinden, Walker, Eaines; Bugler Brown ... ... ... ... 50 No. 2 Company— Sergeants Miller, L'Bstrange, and Hazlett; Corporals Shephard and Freethe ; Troopers Bunten, Heenan, Forsyth, Townsend, Peebles, Eoss, Hahu, Newdick, Pawson, Byrne, Strange, Sutherland, Butters, McDonald, O'Shea, Franklyn, Hean, Cook, Saunders, Pepper, Crowe, Arnold, Hamilton, Waldie, Catheral, Glasgow, Hawkins, Crump, and Wilkie; Bugler Fox ... ... ... 35 Men who were at Kimberley detached for Duty with the Brigade mounted on the Fit Horses. No. 1 Company— Sergeants Harris, Harrowell, Pitt, and Morgan; Corporals Bould and Craig; Troopers Morrison, Hedges, Lewin, Avery, Kells, Cassey, Withers, Wallis, Blair, Cleveley, Newman, Montgomerie, Shaw, Thorpe, W. B. Smith, Bowie, Blenkhorn, Salpin, Manu, Newburn, and Kirkbridge; Bugler Bowie ... ... ... ... 28 No. 2 Company— Colour-Sergeant Cardale; Sergeants Muir, Grant, and Ellis; Troopers Hastie, Seelye, Burroughs, Cossar, Johnstone, Nairn, McConway, McKegg, Smyth, Wood, Flavel, Wright, Tasker, Symes, Holroyd, Gestro, Morrison, H. Smith, Douglas, Harding, Fraser, J. T. Wilson, Cumings, Eenton, Edwards, McPherson, Hasler, Tubman, Fordham, Northe, Prosser, Moore, Black, Fahey, Mcßeth, Orbell, and Mitchell; Bugler Johnston ... ... ... ... 42 202 Officers at Kimberley. Major Eobin, Captain Davies, Surgeon Burns, Lieutenants Matthews, Johnstone, Hughes, and Lindsay ... ... ... ... ... 7 Officers with the Brigade. Captains Madocks and Ward, Lieutenants Bartlett, Chaytor, and Canavan 5 214 Sailed from New Zealand, 215. Lieutenant Neave transferred to York Eegiment. Kenilworth Camp, Kimberley, 2nd March, 1900. Eeferring again to the list of sick, I am afraid most of them will not be fit again this campaign. The list is terrible; but the work of the early part of this war, culminating in the march, has been most severe, and has found out weak men—hot sun, short food, long marches, short sleep, &c. The other units, Imperial and colonial, are just the same, and most of the Imperial, especially the Infantry, have a larger proportion of sick. Do what one can—threaten, warn, and even punish—men will drink all sorts of water, and the water usually in the dams is very bad. To-day the cast-off horses unfit for further use were to be destroyed to save feed, but I had the good fortune to come across a farmer some way out, and he took the lot (numbers N.Z. 186,. 56, 137, 177, 27, 167, 70, 107—eight in all), and gave me £17 10s. for them. The army people five days ago put three hundred in the same condition up for sale, and got about £1 10s. each for them. I will endeavour to thus sell future animals too far gone for work, as it is impossible to place them anywhere for attention; food is so scarce, and the lateness of the rains and the ransacked farms debar any decent prices. Again, the immense number of horses which have been sent to the war, and will not be reshipped, points to geldings being of no value. Mares will perhaps command a better price, but no fancy price will be given. The above horses are all geldings. I have another man coming to make an offer for an unfit mare to-night.