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Members of the Manchester Rifles are reminded of the parade on Thursday next at 7.15 p.m. A correspondent informs us (Wairarapa Daily Times) that the Alfredton people are talking of forming a volunteer corps. Major Messenger takes charge of the rifle camp at Trentham. At the rifle range on Friday morniug Private Kruse, firing with a MartiniHenri rifle at 500 and 600 yarda, made the splendid score of 68 out of a possible 70. Such a total is well worth recording, and shows that the crack Wanganui Rifle rep. is keeping up his reputation. Retired military officers are, it seems, turning their attention to New Zealand as a suitable country in which to spend the remainder of their lives after long service in India. The N. Z. Herald says Captain Daveney states that from first to last he has received, and ha 9in his pos- , session, several hundred letters from military men in India, making inquiries as to the colony, and its suitability for settlement for them. He is satisfied that as its resources become better known they will come here, more especially as there is no other climate so suitable for them after a long term of service in India
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Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 75, 13 December 1892, Page 2
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