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Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 115, 18 March 1893, Page 2

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A fnoudly match botweoa tho Royal Ilaugitikei RiUos and tho Manchester llifles is to be fired at Foildiug ou Weduosday, 22ad mat. Tho following (we learn from tho Advocato) aro tho namos of tho Marton team : — Lieut. Marr, ColSorgt. Henderson, Sergl. Parker, Corp. Johnston, Vols. liatton, W. Morrison, E. Parkinson, W. Johnston, audE. 11. Humphrey. The following team will represent the Manchester Rifl.es in their match against tho Raugitikei Royal Rifles, to ho fired at Feilding ou Wednesday : — Lieut. Bray, Sorgts. Pethonck, and ' Say well, Corpls. Aitken, and Saywell, Vols. Scott, Parker, and Steveus. The match will commence at 11.30 a.m. Tho Manchester Riffos paraded last Thursday night when there was a good muster. Tho mon wero drilled by the non-commissioned officers. Among soujo country volunteer corps in the North Island there is an uneasy feeling as to thoir position. The cause is very simple : They are invited (ordered) to attend encampments at Easter, yet the usual ammunition for class and other tiring has not been served out to them, pending, it is whispered, the results of fcfee consultation by tho Cabinet, and the decision then arrived at, on Colonel Fox's report. The question is whether their whole existance will — or will not — hinge on the attendance of country corps at the encampments. ______