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1900. NEW ZEALAND.

CONTINGENTS FOR SOUTH AFRICA: LIST OF NAMES OF SUBSCRIBERS TO THE NEW ZEALAND MOUNTED BUSHMEN'S FUND IN LONDON; ALSO, LIST OF CONTRIBUTIONS, BOTH IN MONEY, CLOTHING, ETC., FOR THE USE OF THE CONTINGENTS.

Laid wpon the Table of the House of Representatives by Leave.

The Aoent-General to the Eight Hon. the Premier. Westminster Chambers, 13, Victoria Street, London, S.W., Sir,— 23rd February, 1900. to my letter, No. 249, of the 9th instant, I beg to state that the subscriptions to the New Zealand Mounted Bushmen's Fund amount at this date to £1,529 Bs. 6d., as per list, copy of which I herewith enclose. I also enclose copies of lists of contributions, both in money and clothing, &c, which have been made for providing comforts, &c, for the use of the New Zealand Contingents in South Africa. The larger portions of these are now on the way to the Cape. I have this day paid into the Public Account the further sum of £469 10s. on account of New Zealand Mounted Bushmen's Fund, and have advised the Treasury accordingly. I have, &c, The Bight Hon. the Premier, Wellington. W. P. Beeves.

Subscriptions towards the Fund being raised for the Equipment and Transport of a Corps of Mounted Bushmen to South Africa. Hon. B. Oliver, £100; E. A. Smith, 8.N., £5; Frank Hyams, £10; W. H. Legge, £1; the Misses M. M. and G. Coward and friend, £10 10s. ; Messrs. C. L. and T. H. B. Gardiner, £2 2s. ; Mrs. M. E. S., £5 ; Mrs. E. Hopkins, £1; W. V. Jackson, £3 35.; Bobert Joy, 10s. 6d.; C. Pharazyn, £100; H. J. H. Blow, £1 Is.; E. and T. Agius, £10 10s.; Preece and T. Cardew, £5 55.; W. A. Low, £5; John Tinline, £100; H. M. W., £1; Leo Buller, £1 Is.; F. Larkworthy, £5; E. Pearce, £20 ; Wolf Harris, £21; L. D. Nathan and Co., £10 10s. ; William W. Carlile, £1; J, F. Dundas, £1; Walter Scrimgeour, £50; H. Blunt, £10; V. A. Malcolmson, £10; Mrs. W. H. Levin, £50; Hon. G. M. Waterhouse, £10 ; George Beetham, £10 10s. ; Azim Birch, £10 10s.; Mrs. G. Tancred, £20; J. Beaumont, £10; Sydney J. Dick, £1 Is.; Sir Penrose G. Julian, K.C.M.G., C.8., £10 10s.; F. S. Cordeux, £20; Dr. W. Crosbie Hamilton, £2 25.; Mrs. S. C. Bhodes, £10 ; L. W. Boleston, £1 Is.; John A. Scrimgeour, £10; Purvis Bussell, £100; William B. Ainger, £1; Mrs. Bichard Marshall, 10s.; Union Bank of Australia, £52 10s.; Mrs. Bowles, £2; S. W. Silver, £10 10s.; Henry Bose, £5; Dalgetty and Co., £26; Mrs. Edith Duncan, £1; Thomas Firth and Sons (Limited), £52 10s. ; H. C. Cameron, £1 ; Barrow Hematite Steel Company, £10 10s.; Sir Walter L. Buller, K.C.M.G., £10 10s.; H. W. Eve, £5; Fred Duncan, Vienna, £100; Pintschs Patent Lighting Company, £10 10s.; W. Wilson Cobbett (Limited), £5; George Cooper and Sons, £5; T. and S. Morrin, of Auckland (per J. Petrie, Son, and Co.), £5 55.; George Spencer Moulton and Co. (Limited), £26 ss. ; Hobson and Sons, £10 10s.; Thomas Bolton and Sons, £2 25.; B. K. Gray (Indiarubber and Guttapercha Company), £25 ; Michael Nairn and Co. (Limited), £5 ; Jones and Evans (Limited), Booksellers, £1 Is.; J. D. Potter, £3 35.; Axle-oil and Chemical Company, £10 10s.; Patent Shaft and Axle Company (Limited), £10 10s.; William F. Stanley, £5 ; Stephenson, Blake, and Co., £10; Louis A. Nathan, £10 10s.; Sir Fortescue Flannery, M.P., £10; Sir Edward Stafford, G.C.M.G., £20; Barbier a,nd Bernard, Paris, £2; David Kirkaldy and Son, £3 35.; Siemens Brothers and Co. (Limited), £25; L. M. Ericsson and Co., Stockholm, £200; Townson and Mercer, £3 35.; Ibbotson Brothers and Co. (Limited), £50; J. C. Hanna, £5 55.; W. J. Lavington, £31: total to 23rd January, 1900, £1,529 9s. 6d.