Volunteer Items

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 8, 18 July 1891, Page 3

Volunteer Items

The Manchester Rifles paraded on Thursday liig-htf' for .drill. Captain Heasantß, '%ji Lieut. Kirton and mbmt forty aon-oomtnissioned officers •nd- men\_were in attendance. The new lamps ordered at the last meeting of the corps were in position, and were a vast improvements After the, company had been instructed in the turnings and exercise for the benefit of. the recruits, the parade was dismissed. 1 » Captain Pleasants paid the men a/well deserved compliment ' for their .attention, at drill, and the progress were able to make in consequence. A meeting was then iield, when Volunteer Charles Bray, was unanimously elected* Lieutenant. Captain' Pleasants suggested the election of an honorary sureeon had better be held over until the men had time to talk it over, and the consent obtained of the probable candidates for the position, and this course adopted. With the view of obtaining the necessary material for' gymnastic exercise, \aiid" making suitable alterations'in the Idrili^ 'room, a committee consisting of ActingLieut. Bray, Yols. Nicholson and Keen" was appointed to ascertain $he probable cost, and report at a, meeting to,be,;held aft-r the inspection parade next Thursday. It is understood .that no alterations' will be made in connection ' with the building until the consent of Mr Macarthur has been obtained. ' '