Volunteers

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 107, 10 April 1888, Page 2

Volunteers

The Manchester Rifles will parade for inspection on Friday next at the barracks. Intending recruits are requested to attend in order that they may be elected and sworn in. Uniforms will be provided free, and greatcoats after the capitation for the current year has been earned. A return forwarded to Colonel Stapp gives the value of the musketry prizes won by each corps. To these prizes will be added £3 per corps as ordnance prizes. It will be noticed that Auckland heads the list both with rifles and carbines; The leading amounts are as follows : — Gordon Bifles with 241*25, take Ist prize, £45. One* hunga Bifles, with 218, take 2nd prize £37 10s. Tuapeka, with 209, take 3rd prize, £30. Kumara Bifles, with 203, take 4th prize, £22 10s. The Dunedin City Guards, Thames Bifles, and Napier Bifles each take £15. The Ashburton, Wanganui City, Wellington City, Baitangata, and Wanganui Bifles get £11 5s each. The percentage of merit in the Wanganui corps is 169*86 for the City Bifles, and 148-30 for the Wanganui Rifles. Palmerston North (100-95) with £5 ss; Marton Royals (92*62), with £5 ss, and Manchester Bifles, Feilding, (135*24) 14th on the list with £7 10b, are the other corps representing this districts. The Manchester Bifles should have taken a better place considering the standing of the corps ; but we hope they will move up the list for the firing for 1888. ,