' !!. Reid. Til.-Victor, in mounted 11 oops J.»l
--j lowed, sma.t weathcr-b. ate.t f«-il.,wx. in
I brownish unifo-tns. sueceod.si by
I the Now Zealand atount.-d contingent, a
: :«c looking sunburned lot. drawn from i
| aitrort every town of any iirportanco in ’
K. M. G. Hardly had he b—n rotlc-d.
by tin- majority unknown. w!i-n attention
w << claimed for the yellowish-brown khnr
kee lit with bright ie:u!-t from the blaz n-
the splk.al helmets to the
double stripes down th.- scams of the tight
ly tilting corduroy trousers with large <-ha
m<»:s 1< .iile r patches where th- knee grip
ped the addle, which proclaimed the Souih
Australian mounted troops. la-an, long
stieeimens of fiery manhood, they w.m ap
plause like the r.-st and parsed on to give
p]a*x* to the pr.ml-r of Newfoundland,
tl - Hon. Sir W. V. Whitway. From New
foundland one was transported to Nit >1
by ti».- Natal mounted tr<».|».-i. a contingent
similar in mi-lel aid equipment to their
Catie broth-rs-ln-arms. Hon. Sir N. 11.
Nelson. K. . M <’•. r«l« after them, th-’
otlh-i •! iH-rsotilfi. >tlon of the w-stern Aw-
Italian. Th- preml. rs Is *.r.g dlsnoen-d of.
