Volunteers
The Manchester Rifles will parade for inspection on Friday, the 23rd instant. Apropos of the reduction in the capitation the Waipawa Mail says : — " It is a disgraceful thing to waste the money of the country on ' playing at soldiers,' as many of the corps we know of are in the habit of doing, and the pruning knife wants applying with an unsparing hand to rid the colony of the undisciplined rowdies who disgrace the cloth they wear." The Hawkes Bay Corps must feel flattered. It is not expected that Sir George "Whitmore will inspect the West Coast Yolunteere, as Sir George leaves for England in a few days. The Manchester team will not return until to-morrow, or probably next day. They stayed in Chrietchurch to have a look round for a day or two. We learn from a private source they did not enjoy good health at Oamaru.
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Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 93, 8 March 1888, Page 3
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