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Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 105, 12 March 1889, Page 3

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Lieutenant-Colonel Stapp will inspect the Manchester Eifles on Friday next. Several Feilding riflemen will compete at the Blenheim meeting. The book of infantry drill for 1889 has been published. All that the new volume purposes to do is to improve the drill of our infantry, and to initiate a system which, whilst meeting the requirements of modern warfare, will at the same time fit our army for any service outside Europe which it niay be called upon to render.-- Army and Nayy Gazette. A number of the country Volunteer Corps have latuly expressed to the Hon the Miaister of Defence their desire to disband and form themselves into Rifle Clubs. We (Press) understand from the Minister in question that the Government are agreeable to such a couwe, and that a draft of regulations applying to cases of the kind is now being considered, to be afterwards submitted to the officers k coalman ling th«»a corps. T c raa gulations oi course, have reference to the proper constitution of these Rifle Clubs which will receive a certain amount of State aid .-(This should enpourage the promoters of a Rifle dab in Feilding.)