Volunteers

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 87, 23 February 1888, Page 3

Volunteers

The Manchester Rifles will parade for Government Inspection to-morrow night at the usual hour and place. The Small Arms Committee have settled on the rifle for future armament of the infantry. One is complete and a few hundreds are to be immediately prepared for further trial and report. A magazine arm of a trifle ' over '8 bore, rifled on the Metf ord principal, is the arm selected. The accuracy of shooting when the rifle is both clean and foul is satisfactory, and with the magazine detached it is apparently a superb single shot weapon. The recoil has been minimised by the weapon having the considerable weight of 9±lb without the bayonet, the form of which and the attachment iias not yet been finally approved. Taran&ki and Auckland Riflemen -went through yesterday afternoon by train, en route for Oamaru. . A non-commissioned officer of one •of Wellington city volunteer corps has been formally reprimanded by Lieut. Colonel Crowe, commanding the battalion, for unbecoming conduct towards an officer of another company, i Tije war news from Europe ought . to fill the ranks of the Tolunteers. I