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o Tbe Manchester Rifles paraded last nigbt for inspection. The master was * small. ) Tbe new commandant, Major Pole L Penton, has been gazetted as Colonel. f Col, Fox bas left Wellington for Canter, bury wbere he will take np work on his | sbeep farm. Tbe London correspondent of the ' Dunedin Star says : —Surgeon Maior* . general W. G. Manley, C.8., V.C., whose | services in tbe Crimean, New Zealand, I and Afghan campaigns I bad occasion fco refer fco wben his retirement from | acfcivo service was announced a few months ago, has boon awarded a good . service pension of .£IOO per annam. He | won his V.C. for noble conduct daring the assault iv the rebel pah at Tauranga on April 29, 1864, risking his life in en* deavoring fco save that of the late Commander Hay, 8.N., and others.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 139, 11 December 1896, Page 2
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