The Volunteers.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 126, 9 April 1885, Page 3

The Volunteers.

On Tuesday mghtl'tiie railway station was illwaojpated ;wi^H>, tpßches to receive the Ma^ester aflf Pal^" erston Rifles, on their return from the Eastex^opainjment ajt:Neis,on ; , r WW was alarie^crpwclf of people m,atten4ancej^d. a)%g ' Wwe observed, * the o&lM.^: 1566 ? una %^° aasoawMflj.'.flwt" 6^ ( to trip/ The 'train 'drew alongside the platform to the sweet air "Home iweet Home" br the BanJ. The corps had also^WroVided' themselves with torches which were lighted before the train readied and these'had « grand effect, lighting- -up the train in a novel, ihafcnfeirv. r iThe: men (were QuicHy.fiexfcained and formed in Une on therplatform. Gaptain-Macarthur called ' for thw*e f cterfrsl for ' <3aptain CarroHAhd iuS/brotheripflaesrs/ /.Gapt tain Carroll then o Stepped,, froni. the a^d^allel^Qr dieera from, thg rklmerßton ' men for their Feilding Wethren': ?: Mxeaei w&te giy^i wi^i \a gusto that threkteoed to *we:4he roofs off ttte carriages. Special -were giveii for' the> individual officers, and for the-fcanaV ttnd "last butvnot least for "the big drmia.?' ,jlfc-j» needless to say that the men. were all in the best of' good humour.^ As the train m«red-!*sray from the platform, taking away the Palmerston Rifles. The -band agamnatiuck up- M Home sweet Eome.J\ white the passeng^r^ almost drownedJt bythelpudness.o; their adieus. The two corps are highly,- pleased with- each : oijher, ; we feei ; «wta.in: .that the warm, feelings of mutual^respect and: esteem : engendered by a few -days service in the « mimid' fielfl *bf ;: Wari* 1 :will''hitver'a laatifig effect, •a'tt'd J ten« 'to that bond of union wMch should between "the two townsEps., "ICTsoon as the tni&was > ele& of theUtfttion the men were Marched! eft v|n fours, the band leading. The latter were surrounded by the torch bearers whose burdens shfed aWeml KghVSVer th# moving iiiasa. Mr ; -Newman 1 ' Was-«in! atteftd^mSe with a' ! large asaottnient ' of firework* • t>f r erety ' variety^' » The romatf^caiidles, red ■ and bltie ' lights, Ac., .had a splendid' effect, andas these ■were kept^ittjjoperation oath© whole* line f - .«fc ■ • march ifound > ' the, principal streati 6t th» Borough, they attracted: hundreds eof 'peisons to witness ■ the marciit" ' Im fact on < several parts: of route , ik<6 anen <■ wißre. inconyeniently crowded.: Halting, the: corps sit the , barrack* Caption Macarthuf addressed the mea and said he thanked them on Dehalf pf himself and his brother : offi r cers for; their ,e^(^Ueatconduefc at the ©noafmpment^ , . They .had showed themselves, npt only- good volunteers but respectable men, and he was, satisfied that^if thej pursued ; same, s^ady course ordrUlwhipV had been ifo^qwed since ie had the honor, tv comniand thent.ti^y : .,]eoul4;^ e , "second to none, at the eiacampm^nt next year when he hoped; he. wouli still have the, honor to command them. He said, that one ;patt ; 'of their drill iij. which they, were' behind wak the , sworcl bayonet exerciße, but to remove this he, had arranged With. Lieut Blackniore to hold! 'a : 'drill' meeting every Tuesday evening as that appeared to be the most convenient for all of them. On Saturday afternoons an officer would be in attendance it the rifle range to take ' charge of those members who ■were desfJro'us of 'practicing toquafify themselves as marksmen, but it would be distinctly understood that no member will be. allowed to fire who has been absent 1 from Tuesday's parade without leaved On the cbnclusibii of his addrene Col B«rgt Nicholas stepped to the rjrontaliti called for three cheers for Captain: ' Macarthur. ' These were' given eon amore, -and were heartily joined mi by the" civilians presents cheers four Lieuts Blackmore; and' Pleasants : and ' Sam Daw with: > the band followed. The command to dismiss was then given, and the men separated and departed for their several homes all: well satisfied, with -this, •xpedition. ' • .-. •. i; ■•.• .:■■.■.• >, i; , :...■;'