TERRITORIAL FORCE.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1105, 19 April 1911, Page 6

TERRITORIAL FORCE.

DISTRICT ORDERS. District Orders by Colonel E. ■W. C. Chaytor, Officer Commanding the Wellington District, 'include the following announcements: — The next theoretical examination for officers will be held at the undermentioned centres on Tuesday, May 16, 1911, ti.no and place to be notified to candidates later. The following will act as. supervising officers:—Wellington, Lieutenant A. H. Rassam; Gisborne, Captain A. G. Beere; Napier, Lieutenant.P. W. Skelley; Eketahuna, Captain Herbert; Waverley, Lieutenant D. E. Cardale. The designation "pay and quartermaster" to regiments will in'future be "quartermaster" only. Any pay duties in connection with the regiments will be carried out by the permanent adjutant. Defence rifle clubs wishing to take part in the "Daily Mail" Empire Day Rifle Competition may obtain conditions governing same, together with score-sheets and entry-forms, by applying direct to District Headquarters, New Zealand Defence Force, Wellington. All scores totalling 700 or over should at once be telegraphed to Adjutant-General, Headquarters, Buckle Street, "Wellington, for cabling to London, and the scoTe-sheets should also be posted to the same address for transmission. Officers commanding Defence Cadets Corps (Senior and' Junior) who wish to take part in the Imperial _ Challenge Shield Competitions may obtain copies of the conditions governing the same by applying direct to District Headquarters. Tho name and number of teams entering, with entrance fees, shonld bo forwarded not later than May 11, and scores not later than May 24 for transmission to England ' BATTALION OFFICERS' CAMP. The Easter School of Instruction, which was arranged for tho officers of the Wellington City Eifle Battalion at Trenthaia, was a very successful one, and those' who went through the course of lectures and instruction in practical work speak most enthusiastically of the benefits which all concerned derived from their stay in camp. On. Easter Monday the camp was visited by Colonel E. S. Heard, Director of Military Training and Staff Duties, and Lieutenant-Colonel J. T. Burnott-Stuart, D.5.0., Director of Military Operations and Intelligence, and a good useful day was spent on the hills. A tactical scheme of attack and defence was mapped out, and sides taken. Each phase of the manoeuvre was closely supervised by the General Staff officers, short criticisms and explanatory notes wero given at frequent intervals, the reasons for each step carefully pointed out, and finally tho whole of tho work was reviewed. It was a strenuous day, lasting from early in the forenoon till fairly late in the evening, with two breaks for meals.

Lieutenant Rassam, adjutant of the regiment, and Lieutenant Thornton,- of the New Zealand Staff (attached to general headquarters), were also in camp, as well as Regimental Sorgeant-Major J. M. Hose, and Sergeant-Major Woodward, and these officers and non-commissioned officers gave valuable instruction throughout the period of the camp, the arrangements of which wero modelled on the principles laid down at the recent staff comp at Tauherinikau. Tho following officers attended the camp for instruction:—Lieutenant-Colonel W. G. Duthie, Officer Commanding tho Battaliou, Major C. Harcourt Turner, Captains Cowles, Esson, Rcache,' Harton, Greenish, Corrigan, Ross, Becre, and Lieutenants Millar, Roberts, Gasquoine, Hutcben, Mee, Tato, Atkinson, Hawthorn, Bolton, .T. R. and S. G. Cowles, Felton, Treadwell, Henderson, Kenny, Wilkinson, Butler, Cooper, Holland, and Hart (Carterton).. .. ■ • ■ The Wellington City Battalion (Fifth Wellington Rifles) will parade at the Garrison Hall, Buckle Street, on Friday evening, for inspection by the Brigade>lajor (Captain Hamilton). After parade, Captain Hamilton will address the officers and non-commissioned officers on various matters. In consequence of the Friday night parade, tho usual company parades for this week have been cancelled,"

Besides giving a great deal of enjoyment to playgoers the new Juvenile Opera Company, which it is proposed by the J. C. Williamson management to form into a permanent organisation, will afford a splendid opportunity for youthful stage aspirants to train for a theatrical career, and form a sort of graduating school from which they may eventually be drafted into tho senior musical organisations under the wellknown management. The majority of leading artists of the present day begun their careers at very tender ages in tho world's great centres, hut, so far, there has been no recognised and established company of juveniles out hero to afford this advantage. The success of the juveniles in "The Geisha," last December, at the Princess's Theatre, Melbourne, under the supervision of Miss Jennie Brenan, is largcrly answerable for this decision with regard to tho permanent Lilliputian Opera Company. That the public enjoyed the two matineo performances which wore then given is evidenced by the eagerness which is being displayed in connection with tho forthcoming season at Her Majesty's Theatre. "Tho Geisha" will be the opening piece, and a slightly augmented company will appear, later, in "Floradora." Rehearsals for the latter piece have been.in progress for some little time, and, according to accounts, the .children are shaping splendidly in it, and may bo expected to give as Quo a, performance as they did of "Tho Geisha." The Dutch Second Chamber lias passed a Bill prohibiting bookmakers and totnlisators at all race meetings. Tho Hill prevents all English bookmakers from transacting business in Holland. The measure has to be passed by the l'irst Chamber, nnd to receive the lioynl Assent, before it becomes Jaw. The Minister for Justice declared in the debate on the Betting Bill that bookmakers dealing with clients by post would have to leave Holland under pain of imprisonment. For Children's Hacking Cough at night. Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, Is. lid., 2s. Gd.-Advt. In Switzerland clocks aro now being ma'.ie which do not require hands and faces. The time-piece merely stands in the hall, ami you press a button, when, by means of the phonographic internal arrangements, it calls out "Half-past five," or "Five miuutes to nine," as the case may be. . ,