VOLUNTEER INTELLIGENCE.

Evening Star, Issue 4033, 29 January 1876, Page 2

VOLUNTEER INTELLIGENCE.

1 11 "riMr is proposed to item an ArtiUeryCorps—<st;Orcmwml.. ; % We hear withregtet thatbusihbSS engage-f . attending the pmaffmngdat Was-/ ganui. It is, however, some' consolation: to' K •Moy that his placewiUbefiUodJby rawi v the Napier rmes tyocoffi-; t > niii-o-mata—-the highest score but the weather" very’ unfavorable, withstromr trustscf .wind. Of the Wellington' Citynfles bffiyV’'.' • - "{A iand Volimt^ri^tarnjiud before tlje Honses of the General Assembly during f the last Session, gives an' explicit statement? ' of thenumenbal streikth of the< ah appropriate idea df ooet.tb tb# A chuntiy. iZhe force, comprising aUbranches , - artillery, engineer, rffle, **v»l,aiSs cadet, numbers 5,309 men. ' The officetvd cdminanding, this Jorcecortthe coim^.fcn •ffiSuctorsTjsi^aergeahts, *c., cOpt 'uLssf ' together an exoessnf Id per head for everv man and boy under; £ exclusive althgether'of &e allOwan»iv made tOthe ,fprcp tfrhile invthe field and ' t duty. The extent of cbtmti'y uhder riiliteyj 5 i»i*otection as estimated in detail, 9;0i6 whiles. Jt oiiß - worth immarhing .• ..that','among- the £,809-gallantdefendemop the country there are mo Jam ■fijre cadet corps, numbering l,Bo4Jads; Be* • dpotihg these vervi light .■ infantry, *na f njalohgiaißO a reasonable deduction nSfi./ efficients, the fightingfotee bf the New Zealand 1 t Militia and isaboht dj'OOO scattered ih Siniffi bodies hither ! and'thilhei* ;i ' , t^ughout' wantj of facilitiesforepeedy tftfrelling unable to Tcadily mass, together at any given pbint, in the' event of their services being ever needed, - ,Z?.. | ■ : '* ■ »■■■■•■ v ,fJ ■ y * T |r 'V 7 (By Telegram.) K;: f J'f ( 1 ■ i,.\r i. The second for chpice, of TColo- r nial representatives for Nprih Otago. 'yaav’' completed tins morniqg, All six xwmpetitom / » qualified. The top..score by Col.-Sergt. Hingis believed’to have been thehigheat Made in the Colony. ; ,

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