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Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 123, 10 April 1890, Page 4

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The Mancnester Rifles "wUivpar^de; tor inspection to-morrow evening at the usual hour. All absentees will be fined. : -... . The Bbam fight at the Wellington Encampment, was declared a draw^n, battle. v' v -?- In an article on Yoluute>r^Qafti>s the fost directs attention^.to the not to do if ' poUcy bf^^he pment' Defence Minister and alludes to the repoated sntfbs the^ Voiufitißerei of this coast received when they Itiskeii to be' allowed to attend. It adqij :~Jh refard to thecamp now; beinW : |teld at j siand Bay, the who^bf .t^e#olua- j teers on the West CoasJf c^imM^lsland j including three corps of Gavi^l'iry,.were willing to come^ here, ano'motst anxious to do so, being content even to bear the cost of their qwn transport. Captain Hutchis'on was v in ; town * day or so ago, and \ vainly attempted to obtain permission for ' tne^ West Coast Corps to • i cbme,'«but the Defence Office absolutely refusefd 1 ta permit them. Each ,of the ,Cjavalry .■ Corps has instead been. ; or4ereiJ to. Have, a camp of its'jown, ti and .even: rthe Heretaunga Light Horse have to camp by themselves ;-at the - Hutt;,. >hile,. the other Yolu^te.ere>a.re. ia.Sßembred, at Island Bay. The Nelson and Blenheim ■Cadets, both r fine Corpsi were anxious to come into tKe" Island' Bay Camp, and had gone'id ' couaiderabTe expense in making arrangements, when permission to do' so 1 was suddenly '¥efußed ( .^ . t . - '■•irn-ff- I. ' -;j ■■■■■' •••i