The Premier and the Volunteers.
_^__— _ . Q i (I'EK TRKSS ASSOCIATION.) I Wancianvi, April 18. The Nelson Volunteers, still in town, I will leave here on Saturday morning by the Murray and Waverley. The following telegram was received by Colonel Pitt yesterday from the Defence Minister :— " The Hon. the Premier and Defence Minister desires to disseminate through you his satisfaction at the energy pluck and endurance shown by all ranks in your command during the late Easter Encampment at the Feilding camp under the uuusual trying circumstauces to which they were exposed, and his assurance that he feels that tho troops who could so cheerfully submit to the stress of weather, extra cost, shortness of supplies, and want of ordinary campaign comforts, would be equally as reliable were their country and their homes in danger.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 245, 19 April 1895, Page 2
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