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The parades for June for the Manchester Rifles are published to-day. The fines collected by the Manchester Rifles through the KM. Court for the quarter ended' March 81st, 1890) amounted to £2 9s net. Several very smart recruits bavejoboi the corps lately. . Mr A. W. Bailey, son of the CoJonel commanding South Canterbury, has passed the competitive examination- for commissions granted to officers of the Colonial forces, and has been gazetted second Lieutenant of the 2nd Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment, now stationed at Kamptee, Central India. The services of buglers are always valuable acquisitions to volunteer oorps. In i corps in the .South Island a youngster was paid 2s for every parade he attended, and fined according to regulations for uvery parade he missed. At the end of the year he had earned his capitation for tvs corps. This plan might be adopted with advantage in other corps. * In our report of the proceedings at the u-avaJry Tournament on Queen's birthdaym omitted to mention that Captain Pleasants thanked Lieutenant McKenzie, >f the Rangitakei Cayalry, for the oempUnents paid to the Manchester Bifles, -
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Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 144, 29 May 1890, Page 2
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