PROVINCIAL NEWS

Kumara Times, Issue 2678, 22 April 1885, Page 2

PROVINCIAL NEWS

[united prkss association.] Christchurch, April 21. On Saturday James Daly, an old and respected settler at Akaroa, was found dead in bed. He bad been in the babit of taking German chloroform for sleeplessness, and on this occasion he had evidently taken an overdose. Auckland, April 21. A young man, William Hacker, was drowned whilst rafting timber at Wangaroa. VOLUNTEER REGULATIONS. Wellington, April 21. It is the intention of the Defence Minister to amend the Volunteer Regulations. There will be four branches of the service, the first being garrison Volunteers in towns with a capitation of ,£3 per man ; the second, country Volunteer corps, with .£1 10s per man ; the third, an honorary corps, and the fourth, an honorary reserve. The honorary corps will be under the same regulations as the garrison corps, but will be without capitation. The honorary reserve corps will be allowed to frame their own regulations, but they will have to be approved by the Defence Minister. In each case, however, Government will supply the necessary arms. The new regulations an? framed so as to allow each company to increase its strength to 100, but capitation will only be paid for the

present, on the maximum of 63 for each town corps, aud 50 for company in the country. As the number of parades which the country have to attend to qualify them for capitation been found to press very hard on some Volunteers members, the parades have been fixed as six, two-thirds of which have to be attended before qualifying f oc capitation.