The Easter Encampment
■■-•■ The great event in the Volunteer year may be said te have commenced on Thursday night, when the Volunteers of both islands began to go into camp. Today (Saturday) there will be troop, battery, and company parades at 7 a.m., and battalion parados at I l * a.m. and 2.30 p.m, At the same honrs the cavalry and artillery will be drilled as their officers may deem most desirnble. To-morroflr divine service will be held in the camp at 10 a.m., when the Rev. P. Lochisl Cameron will officiate. On Monday all the forcos iv camp will parade in drill order at 8.30 a.m. and 1 p.m., when blank ammunition will be served out to tl»em ; and in the aft moon the Shnm Fight will take j>lace. Up to the present there are 1200 men uuder arms.
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Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 135, 24 April 1886, Page 2
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