Volunteer Items

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 42, 21 September 1889, Page 3

Volunteer Items

" The.: Manchester : Rifles r wih" ; parade on Friday the, 27 th instant.- ■• =„-.■ A circular has been issued by the Defence; Office- stating; ithat under a new arrangement five Martini-Henry rifles will be issued "'to each ? e6rp,B, andrtho costs, if desired, charged "against the current year's capitatioruand 100 :round3 of ammunition issued on the same terms. As the stock of these nfles'in'sforeis'now : under 200 it is suggested 'that "only ; cprp3 who intend sending competitors to" D^nedin should at present avail themselves of this' proposal, •■anAitjaait other, corps wfib may desire to have a few of ...these rifles should state •when applying,they will be satisfied if the issue is made from the 250 still to arrive from "England. ;'^— ■ •' • r If 'corps send men to Dunedin the Government are. i determined ; they^will pay for theirfrolic. : IV ; A correspondent,^"' SiiapcapV" who has strong claims to; the title of " old . soldier, " suggests that ih e> : Feilaing' tradesmen arid the public ■'encburage the local ■volunteers to become "gooS marksmen by trophies' to" be 1 fiired' for. The suggestion is a good "one, anH might be adopted l^with advantage' to the givers as well-as -the"receive,rs. It.is only too true rthat f while •'" the townsmen are always pleased to hear of -the "Manchester • Rifl 3 Volunteers winning ' their.firihg matches, tut they 'don't give anything to'encourage tbeni;" :; As ; tthe'sb6btingfor the conipany. will commence on -the stli ; of Octo- ' ber, there 1 is yet time for intending! donor r ; vto^a'c't^' 1 --* - ;; - ; -'i >>;; ■'• ■'■' ''■''' ] ( -".'^ '■ , ,', : Therelis.r'eason to believe the new rifle supplied to the British Army is almost a failure. ' ' • ' ~