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" There wss ,a iull attendance of - officers aud 'men at the muster, parade ,-laet night of the Manchester Rifles. Softer the' inspection of arms &c, tbe "men were- drilled by Sergt. Major Macmillan. Before the corps was dismissed Dr Clifton Charlton was elected Medical Officer by the unanimous vote • of, the men.
The corps has made 23 capitation parades during tbe year. t Parades for January are published elsewhere. Firing for the company prizes was proceeding as we went to pressf Several of the candidates for commissions in the volunteer force "were plucked at the last examinations. held in Wanganui. Major Purnell passed and made on the whole a percentage of 78. 33. The remarks attached' to the report are that the answers all through were .good. There was a court martial on' a small scale in Wanganui this week, but we believe tbe authorities want the thing kept quiet. At auy .rate we happen to known that Moqseman, the Tange custodian, has been censured by the Colonel for unnecessarily causing risk to human life.
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Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 73, 7 December 1889, Page 3
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