Volunteer Items

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 83, 3 January 1893, Page 2

Volunteer Items

On November 6 a inarching competition was held between bodies of men drawn from various branches of the British forces. Out of 17 teams that competed 11 traversed the whole distance of more than 50 miles over bad roads. The men were in full marching order, I carrying about 35 pounds weight of equipments. Two of the teams accomplished the' feat in less than 18 hours. The winners were a Volunteer team belonging to the 8r& Battalion of the East Surrey Regiment, who performed the march in 17 hours 86 minutes. ■ ,'• f-- v - Lieutenant-Council Fox has been yeryv out -spoken nt some of the inspections helms held in the south. The Mount Ida Chronicle says : — ' We cannot bet admire > the outspokan manner in which he : ha* delivered himself to some companies' which he has inspected recently, because V we believe it will do far more to bring the > Volunteer force up to what dome people i would have us think it is than this \ namby-pamby sickly praise which we • set so much of, and whioh has 'done, and \ tV doing, more to damn- good effort* Ahjjjn, > a eood solid rounding up, and a . layinf •> bare of defects end ehamr' v At . the inspection of the Milton .Rifles, the colonel said the strength of the company was so small that he thought their, .com*, mandant would be' on|y ,'dping" x his' duly' if he recommended the dishandment of the corps- . .' ; .V 1