Volunteer Items
The Manchester Rifles will parade for inspection to-morrow night. Lieut. Col. Mahon has resigned his commission in the No. 3 Battalion, Auckland Eifle Volunteers. There will be practice firing at the Feilding; butts on Saturday afternoon. A singular scene has just been witnessed at Colchester, when the volunteers encamped on the Abbey Fields were paraded to witness the ■" drumming out" of a private of the 3rd Essex "Volunteer battalion for neglect of dutjr and insubordination. The shoulder straps and buttons having been torn off the culprit's uniform, he was marched under escort to the railway station and summarily dismissed.
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Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 47, 27 September 1888, Page 3
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101Volunteer Items Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 47, 27 September 1888, Page 3
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