Volunteer Items

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 153, 26 July 1888, Page 2

Volunteer Items

The next capitation parades of the Manchester Rifles will be held on Friday the 10th and 24th of August. Recruits are reminded that drill is held at the Barracks every Tuesday and Thursday evening. As a result of want of sufficient drill and proper descipline, a correspondent of a contemporary says of the Melbourne war scare that it showed what a terribly unreliable condition the defences are in : — " The torpedoes got adrift, the Volunteers proved anything but soldier-like, and the whole muster turned out a regular fiasco."

Mr Eobert Menziea wants eight men for bushfelling and clearing roads at 8b a day. We have an immense stock of Flannels for the present season that are un usually cheap in price and geod in quality, comprising — Ist, a lot of useful imitation Welsh at 4£d, 6id, B£d, 10£d, and Is per yard ; 2nd, a very nice soft moke called super medium Welsh at Is, Is 3d. Is 6d, and up to 2s 6d per yard ; 3rd, heavy Welsh Flannels a very strong make at J.s, Is 3d, Is 6d up to 2s 6d per yard, at Te Aro House, Wellington. 4th, A very fine make of Flannel with pink list called Saxony Electoral at Is, Is 3d, Is 6d, Is 9d, 2s, and 2s 6d per yard. sth, " The Lancet" Flannel — this is a special outcome of the celebrated Healtheries Exhibition in London, which can be depended on for comfort and wear, and is guaranteed by one of the best makers of the day. and the holder of a prize medal " not to shrink" — prices are Is. Is 3d, U 6;1, Is 9d, 2s. 2s 3.1, and these can only be obtained lit the Wholesale Family Drapery Warehouse, Te Aro House, Wellington.