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A meeting of the Shooting Committee of the Manchester Rifles will be held this evening at Light's Hotel at 7.30 p.m. By a circular dated the 10th instant, officers commanding corps are reminded j that the new Infantry Drill for 1893 is now in force. Sergeants of the Manchester Rifles will have the uecessary drill books issued to them on Thursday next, after parade. It has been decided that all volunteer corps in the colony shall encamp at Easter. The volunteers of the Wellington, Wauganui, and Taranaki, districts will encamp at a suitable place on the Manawatu line in the vicinity of Wellington. Mounted corps in these districts will also encamp together at a place to be hereafter named. The members of the Manchester Rifles are specially requested to attend at the parade on Thursday next, for the purpose of meeting afterwards and discussing business connected with the internal government of the corps., and making arrangements in connection with the Easter Encampment. We are pleased to record that Corporal Robert Alcorn, of Manaia, has received from the War Office, London, a New Zealand War medal, for active service uuder Cameron in the Waikato war in 1863-4, and under Generals Cameron and Chute in the Wanganui and Taranaki campaigns 1865-6. — Hawera Star.
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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 237, 12 February 1894, Page 2
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213Volunteer Items. Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 237, 12 February 1894, Page 2
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