VOLUNTEER REGULATIONS.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2384, 22 November 1870, Page 3

VOLUNTEER REGULATIONS.

A General Government Gazette, published on the 11th instant, contains a new set of rules and regulations of the New Zealand Volunteer Force. According to these tlie maximum strength of a corps, including all ranks, is not to exceed seventy-one, while a separate detachment of ten men will be recognised, and will bo permitted to have one sergeant and one corporal. A company of from seventeen to twenty men may have one cornet, second lieutenant or cns'gn, one serg ant, one trumpeter, one corporal. A company of from twenty to thirty men may have one lieutenant, one second licut nant, one color sergeant, one sergeant, one trumpeter, two corporals, and one farrier. A company of from thirty to sixty men may have one captain, one lieutenant, one second lieutenant, one color-sergeant, two sergeants, One trumpeter, three corporals, one farrier. Any corps of thirty men and upwards will be entitled to an honorary assistant-surgeon. The formation of four or more corps into a battalion will He allowed, and the battalion will be entitled to a major, a Burgeon, asdstant-surgeon, adjutant, ser-geant-major, quarter-master-sergeant, and a drum-major. Instructions then folio v as to the steps to be taken for the formation of corps, the relative precedence of companies and officers ; and rules for the appointment of commissioned and non-com-missioned officers, wh) should prove themselves qualified. The next series of clauses is devoted to enrolled members, and among them, clause 29 states that “ Persons dismissed from a Volunteer corps for misconduct are m 4 eligible for enro’nn-nt in another corpbut no portion of the rule states by whom a Volunteer may be dismissed. Regulations are Riven in full as to who shall be deemed efficient and honorary members. The rules drawn up by Volunteer companies for the management of tln ir own affairs may be given legal force if forwarded in dvplicate through the commanding officer of the district for the approval of the Governor. If any Volunteer company should not with n one month from the date of the Gazette submit for the approval of the Governor its own private rubs, then a model set of rules appended to the regulations will “he deemed to .apply to such Volunteer corps, and shall have the same force and effect in respect to such Volunteer corps as though they had been adopted, and submitted in accordance with section 46 of these regulations.” Ol.auses 50 to 67 arc concerning Courts of Inquiry, parades, assemblies of Volunteer corps, arms, accoutrements, and ammunition; the last authorising eaah Volunteer riflemen to receive without payment 100 rounds of ball and twenty rounds of blank cartridge and 150 caps. Strict regulations for Volunteers to salute officers when both are in uniform, and for officers to return the compliment, are given in clauses 68 and 69. The remainder of the clauses (there are 105 in all) refer to clothing and dress regulations, stores, rifle practice, cadet corps, pay and finance, adjutants, inspectors, returns and correspondence.