Volunteer Items

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 97, 8 February 1890, Page 3

Volunteer Items

.+ _ Paradeß of the Manchester Pdflei for March are published to-day. Captain Pownall, of Masterton, wai putting some raw recruits througl their facings the other evening. Ap proached a promising youth he askec .« Haye you ever served .in any nava or military corps V. • Yes, sir," was the muovent reply, 'I was once iv th< Salvation Army.' As a token of the value placed or the services of the press by the New Zealand Rifle Association, Captain Sommerviile, before leaving Dunediu, presented Messrs George Humph iis t (Press Association) aud Mbert Cohen (Dunedin Star) with a handsome ring , each.- The two gentlemen named """-fully earned' the rewards they receiyed as the work this year was exceptionally well done. * Colonel Jjtapp is of opinion thai there, will be a large encampment al V\ ellington at Easter, and that the Volunteers of this district ought tc make an effort to be well represented. Captain.. Sommerviile intends, if possible to take the Alexandra Cavalry down, aud the Bulls troop contemplate attendiug the encampment. As this will be conducted ou new and more practical lines than the previous en campinents have .been, it will be well worth the while of the local Voii" unteers to' attend.