Volunteers

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 129, 7 May 1887, Page 2

Volunteers

The Manchester Rifles paraded for inspection last night. There was only a moderate attendance oi 33 including the band, several men were fined for absence. Lieutenants Pleasants was in command. After inspection by Colonel Stapp, Lieutenant Kirton was examined as to his practical knowledge of drill. At the conclusion of the parade Colonel Stapp informed the corps there would be a muster of the West Coast Battalion at Wanganui on the occasion of the opening of the Jubilee Exhibition in that town. He stated the Taranaki, Marton, and Palmerston Rifles and the two cavalrj corps, had decided to attend. He 'further stated if any of the rifles now «m issue to the men were found to be old or defective, on application being made to him he would replace them with new ones, provided the number did not exceed a dozen. A meeting of the corps was then held and it was decided unanimously to attend the Wanganui muster. * A match will be fired between the Manchester Bifles and the Marton Royal Rifles at Marton on Saturday the 21st instant. The names of the Manchester team have already been published, but since then that of volunteer Humphries has been added. "Rough on Bats," clears put rats, mice bettles, roaches, flies, ants, bed- bugs, in* sects, skunks, moles, jack rabbits, gophers, sparrows. At Chemists and Druggists. — Advt.. " Buchu-Paiba " — Quick, complete cure, all annoying kidney, bladder, and urinary diseases. At Chemists and Druggists. Kempthorne, Prosser, & Co., Agents, Wellington.— Adtt. We (Wanganui Herald) learn that a gentleman who has just come down from the Waimarino is loud in its praises<He lays the block is a great deal better than most people are aware, the greater portion of it being really excellent land. It is the intention of the Government, we beiiere. to get the land surveyed as soon as she wet season is over, and for this purpose a large number of surveyors will be sent up the river. Our informant states that the road from Pipiriki to Hanoi should bo widened as soon ns possible, so that communication by dray may be opened up, a* there is already a considerable trade being done with the Murimotu district. Tn this trade Wanganui should be abl» to hold its own, but at prcspnt goods can he- conveyed from Auckland to Taupo, a much greater dis» fa nee. at less expense than from here. Givm a suitable .siwuner and agood road there is no doubt but this district will do its share u£ llic irudc in thai dirt'OUuii.