Volunteer Items

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 34, 30 August 1888, Page 3

Volunteer Items

The Woodville corps is reported by the local paper to be ia a bad way. The officers and men do not get on well together.. • A native contingent of Volunteers is being forqaed at Hastings. 1 As soon as the weather is favorable for rifle shooting the Palmerston corps will be invited to fire a match with the Feilding corps. • . Lieutenant Andrews, formerly of; the Ist battaiion of the Canterbury Volunteers, and now in the Devonshire Regiment in India, has sent in an application, asking for assistance from the doyernment in the matter of joining a cavalry regiment as .he is over ape; The, Governor is. rendering all the assistance in his power. The Examiner says:— The Woodville Rifle Volunteers having sent in a petition to Mr Russell, of the Telegraph Department to accept the office of lieutenant. Mr Russell has referred the matter to Dr Lemon for his approval. Mr Russell is eminently qualified for the position having been trumpeter in the Bth Hussars in 1857. He served 18 months during the Indian Mutiny, and was wounded at Meerut, and discharged as unfit for service. He afterwards joined the Victorian Volunteers, and was in the QSstlemaine Dragoons under Burke, the explorer. Air Russell was also in service in the Queensland Mounted ' 1 Troopers. In New Zealand he was in 1 the Christchurch Volunteers, and for four years latterly a gunner in the D Battery, N.Z. Artillery, at Wellington. ' He holds the Indian and New Zea- , land- War Medals. ;