Volunteer Items

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 40, 18 September 1890, Page 3

Volunteer Items

The. members of the Manchester Rifles are requested to note the dates of the parades published elsewhere. Should the Wednesday half holiday movement be a BUccess, and the various employers be induced to fall in with the views of the employed, there will be rifle practice at the butts on that day. Lately one of our best-known Generals, who has had the misfortune neyer to be on active service, was in epecting a regiment of militia. Passing down the ranks he was struck with the appearance of one of the - private's, and, addressing him, remarked, "that he looked like an ol<3 soldier," inquiring at the sametim< «• how many years' service he had r; 14 Seventeen years, ©ow I" replied th< eon of Erin. " Dear me, dear me,' ejaculated the General, scrutinisinj the man^ closely, " seventeen years service, and no good conduct stripes yL "Well, I never came across a man witl lAgueh long service aud yet not bav< any good-conduct stripes." " And V responded the jwivate, " never cami across « ;; Ginerat without* a meda ;fcef^-S*wk

Enquiries are being made at this offici anent the book "Heroes of the Darl Continent, or How Stanley found Emit Pasha." People want to know when i will be delivered. Cobbe & Darragh have a good rang* of Samples of Colonial Tweeds from wbicl they are taking orders for Suits to meas ure, at from 67/6. They guarantee the fit and finish of all Garments which thej undertake. No deposit required when order. . (For continuation of Reading Matter set fourth page.)