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Mules for Reserve , carried with the Battery . 
15 for double shell......... 
5 u rockets....... 
2 a shrapnel .. 
1 „ case ... 
1 n powder. 
1 „ fuzes. 
5 u materiel .. 
1 u wheeler’s tools ...... 
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Ponies 
1 for serjeant-major, 
1 u qr, -mr. - serj eant, 
1 „ armourer serjeant, 
1 u conductor of stores, 
1 /< trumpeter. 
120 double shell. 
80 rockets. 
32 shrapnel. 
20 case. 
{ Vet. stores, shoes and nails, iron, 
wood, charcoal, leather, &c. &c. 
C in addition to those originally 
| supplied with equipment. 
Summary. Mules 
Battery .. 60 
1st Reserve .. 31 
Spare . 19 
5 
Otago saddles... 100 
Biding do. ... 5 
Ponies 
110 
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Extract from Battery Orders, 
B ” Mountain Batteby, 
Zulla, 19th July, 1868. 
“The mules and saddles for the reserve will be furnished in equal proportions 
by the several subdivisions. 
“ Beserve loads will be packed separately, and the mules picketed with their 
subdivisions. 
“ The reserve is under the charge of the Conductor of Stores.” 
Pour spare wheels were carried with each half-battery in Nos. 2 and 5 
subdivisions. 
The great strain upon the wheels in firing made the large proportion of 
spare wheels carried with the batteries necessary. 
The spare wheel load assumed the shape of an inverted V, and with 
“ B ” Battery the shafts of the three subdivisions were carried with this 
load between the wheels instead of with the gun, in order to render that load 
as free as possible for mounting and dismounting. 
The wooden cradles were early dispensed with for gun and carriage, but 
retained for the carriage of the wheels on third mule, as being more 
convenient. 
The load comprising wheels and carriage, as originally laid down, being 
considered too heavy, the old plan of carrying the wheels separately was 
reverted to. 
The iron cradles (in separate pieces) are easily fitted to any Otago saddle, 
and answer every purpose, though the arms are adjusted with difficulty, 
and are too weak in the joints. 
