HIGHLAND RIFLES.
• Visitors from wanganui. ; Wangar.ui. • Highland Riiles (26 . strong) are. 'at ijfesent paying . their 'annual''visit to the; .W.ellihgton ,Higllldhdors.'>. On Saturday they .engaged -in a riflo niatch at Trentham, but as the competition is not yet , completed, the;.exact vretunr figiirbs are;not availabk 'At present':the local corps :has .still , twor meii .to .fire "off, and' requite 39' points to . win. •/' On Saturday night, at the Drill flail, Buckle; Strwt,- the^Wellington; Company, entertained.; the .visitors' at,'ti smoke, concert. Lieut.;. George Willis ; presided, and with ;him .;were .'Lieut."- . (of the Wanganui Company), and Lieut."li,'. Wilkinson and; eighty "men ■: of both : fldrps. ; .V.The - of : , 'Tlie•.Vtsit6ra , '■ .was: proposed :by- the ohairiafini 'ii'nd"responded to .by ..the ' Wanganui officers; Lieuti: .Wilkinwui 1 .-.proposed. "Rifle .Shooting,".'and.Pte.' M'Lcau "The Pi'esS," the former'' toast .being . replied to by; Sergt, Chishplin : and : Corpl.;Shaiinoniv 'A musical : Sl , tributiiig items: —; Lieut; ./Wilkinson, Sergts. Armstrong, M'Goriagle, Gardiner, and M'Ardle,- C'orpls. - Shannon and St; Clair; ; Ptes.. M Lellan,;• Smith, and M'Lean. • -'V\ ;• ■ Yesterday,. -, the., members .of -both torn*; panies, . with Lieuts.; Willis;: and,. Wilkinson,, drove out in drags to Toitn, where:a. most enjoyable picnic, took place.'; The majority of the Wanganui men return to : their homes by to-morrow motning's train, while, a few are;rem'ainin9 : for the local riflo championship meeting. 1 .:
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 705, 3 January 1910, Page 5
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207HIGHLAND RIFLES. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 705, 3 January 1910, Page 5
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