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Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 10, 12 July 1892, Page 2

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The Manchester Hides will parade for inspection by Lieut Col. Newall on Thurg. day next. Full dress. The 29th Anniversary Ball of the Royal Bangitikei Rifles will be beld in the Drill Hall Mar ton on Friday the 22nd inst. Ine ofhcers of the Manchester Eifles have been invited. By circular from the Defence Department officers commanding districts are informed that the new Infantry Drill (1892) issued by H. M. Government is to be taken into use by the New Zealand Forces from July 7th 1892. The initiatory instruction drill will probably be given by Lieut. Col. Newall on Tours, day night, therefore officers and men of all ranks are urgently requested to attend. All absentees will be fined. A coroner's jury sat for seven hours on May 10 at Aldershot, inquiring into the circumstances attending the death of Private Robinson, of the Royal Lancaster regiment, who was shot in his barrack room. Deceased, with a number of other men, was sitting near the fire, when without the slightest warning, a shot was fired from a neighbouring room. The bullet having passed through two doors, first struck a man named Cartiledge, taking away a portion of the shoulder of his serge jacket, next ripped open the thigh of Corporal Burton, who was sitting near him, and, continuing its course, passed through both thighs of the man Robinson. A young private soldier named Parsons, who had only been in the army five months was practisiug manual exercise with a Lee-Burton rifle in the adjoining room when a soldier, named Coyle, then took the weapon from him, and, telling him to " shift," presented it at him. Parsons ran of the room, and pulled the door to behind him. Then he peeped through the key hole, and saw Coyle pointing the rifle at the door. Parsons bobbed his head just in time to escape the bullet, which passed through a portion of the lock plate, crossed a passage and went through the opposite door into the room as mentioned. The jury found a verdict of •• manslaughter " against, Coyle, who is now in the custody of the civil police,