Volunteers

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 84, 16 February 1888, Page 3

Volunteers

Colonel Stapp has issued a memo that corps may commence class firing at once. Same targets and points as last year. Captain Coleman, A.C^, has been appointed cavalry inspector for the Volunteer force of this colony. Manchester Rifles will parade on Friday the 24th inst. The Dunedin Evening Star says that taking the most sanguine view of the efficiency of the Volunteers there will be, in common prudence, a necessity for falling back on the second line of defence, the first-class militia, should the prospects of war become imminent. Sergeant- Major Macmillan proceeds to Oamaru to keep the registers during the Association meeting. Sir George Whitmore is now in Auckland making his final inspection of the volunteers there. There is to be an Easter encampment in the Wellington district. Whether the West Coast battalion, will be invited n» not yet known. The school of military instruction has been abolished. At the re-union of the Wanganui Rifles on Tuesday night Adjutant Hutchison stated that an M.H.K , lor an adjoining district, had ascertained from the Government, and it had been placed on record, that the efficiency of the Volunteer Force of the colony would not he reduced, although the rate of capitation might be decreased.