WITH THE FOURTH CONTINGENT.
ON BOARD THE MONOWAI

A PLEASANT UNEVENTFUL TRIP

TO ALBANY.
THE DAY'S WORK,

ACTING-APPOINTMENTS.
(FROM OUB SPECIAL COBBESPONDEKT-) ALBANY, April 3. So far we have been extremely fortunate in the matter of weather. During the course of a conversation to-day with Cap tain Chatfield that gentleman remarked that ne has not experienced such a period of fine weather on the Tasman Sea for three years, and" the run from Bass Strait to Albany has been equally fine. There has, therefore, been comparatively little sea sickness among the troops. The general health of the officers and men lias been excellent; the health of the horses, too, has been very good. We have so far lost only one horse, that belonging to Sergeant Mead, of the Nelson section, which died from peritonitis. The horses are under the care of Veterinary-Surgeon Edgar, a man of high skill and considerable practical experience. At the moment of writing there is only one sick horse aboard, and that is not a serious case. Given average fine weather from Albany to the Cape we do not anticipate any more deaths.
