Volunteer Items

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 146, 7 June 1892, Page 3

Volunteer Items

-• •■• ' •'» The Manchester Rifles will hold a capitation parade next Thursday. The»-are a few vacancies for recruits in the Manchester Rifles. Young men who desire to join shpuld make applica* tiofas at once. Recently at Vienna, an artilleryman committed suicide, shooting himself with ■ Werndl -rifle. He aimed at his breast, and th* bullet'- wient through that and killed bim, Then it entered the head of Uie second soldier who was standing near and went through that and killed him. Afterwards it encountered a third soldier luttiaghimintiiearm. While in Wellincton Captain Hall, of 'thii Paimerston N. Volunteers, visited thfe"lJefe^W i Department and mnde application for new arms and targets. ' The - rippjiealion was granted, and Captain Hall is daily expecting 60 stands of arms tnd three new targets. Anew quick* firing Winchester gun, which threatens to dissipate the renown gained uj the Maxim gun inthe rapidity Of -its d death»dealing capacity, was recently tested at New Haven, Conn. The number of shots ejected per minute was QOO. The Matim machine gun holds the record up to 750 shots per minute. The new Winchester has a water jacket surrouuding the barrel that holds one gallon ■of water, which is evaporated in one m nute when the gun is in operation. In experiments without the water jacket the barrel! became too hot for safety in less than half a minute. The exploded shells as they are thrown from the breech, rise about two feet over the gun and fall in ♦hat appears to ; be a gracefully curved bar of butniirtiwi brass. The gun is the invention of Messrs Browning Brothers, guhmakers,- of Ogden, Utah.