Volunteering

Manawatu Herald, 21 February 1903, Page 2

Volunteering

It is to be hoped that the interest manifested in volunteering during the past two or three years will not fade away. There is the old saying that to preserve peace you must be prepared for war, and though the South African war is at an end, war against Great Britain is always likely from manifold causes, and its likelihood is daily manifested by the immense sums spent yearly upon both the army and navy. We trust that peace may continue, as all colonists must do since the horrors and the sorrows of war have been more closely brought under their notice, but though we may not have again to send our sons out of the country to fight, it is our duty to our King and Country to place the colony in a position to defend ourselves. We have the power within our shores to do this if all our men were properly trained, and it is the duty of the colonists to so encourage these lessons in arms that our youths and young men will devote some portion of their leisure to secure a knowledge of drill and shooting. We have in this town a good Volunteer Corps, a Cadet Corps, and a School Corps. The men’s company are doing well, and the Cadets have made a good start, but since the death of Lieutenant Baker much cannot be said about the school corps. We may expect a vast improvement when Mr Purrie arrives. The Cadets are a corjSs which should receive every attention, as the members Are of an age when the influence of drill and obedience have most effect, and good drilled cadets make the best of recruits for the adult corps in a few years. The government have learnt this lesson as they are giving a larger sum towards thensupport than they had led the public to suppose, and will, shortly, increase the capitation. , W 7 e hope to see all these divisions working pleasantly together, and if they do it will be little they Want that they cannot extract from the public. A drill hall would, we should imagine be for the use of all, and a proper representation should secure the accomplishment of such a needed building, by either securing a building at present in use or by the erection of a new one. In this case, as in ail else we find the need of unanimity in action.

The Addington Railway Workshops are now working three shifts a day.

The British Parliament has been opened by the King and Queen, with it is said, splendid pageantry.

Rear-Admiral Lord Charles Beresford, M.P. for Woolwich, has accepted the command of the Channel Squadron.

Mr H. B. Kirk, M.A., has been appointed Professor of Biology to the Victoria College for four years, at a salary of £yoo a year. The visit of the King and Queen to the London County Council’s model dwellings, erected on the site of (he Milbank Prison, took place this week. The Rev. R. A. Robinson, of Kongotea, is announced to conduct the services in the Primitive Methodist Church to-morrow, morning and evening.

The excursion to the Heads tomorrow bids fair to be a success, as the tickets are selling well, and the glass being high a beautiful day may be expected. Miss L. Cook has now got her stationer’s shop in order, the new goods having been tastefully arranged, and a visit is only needed to assure visitors of the quality of the contents.

Mr Hackworth wishes the settlers in this district to note that general poisoning of rabbits must commence the first week in March. Anyone not starting in that time is liable to prosecution.

In another column Capt. Walsh gives notice to volunteers that no practice will be allowed on the rifle range until further notice, so as to allow of improvements in hand to be completed. To-day we inspected the asphalt pitch which has been finished by Mr Schlager in the school ground. It appears to have been very well made, and Mr Schlager speaks hopefully of its lasting ten years. It is now perfectly hard. This pitch is the present of Mr G. Coley to the children, which the older boys much appreciate. When in ancient and imperial Rome a maiden was wedded, she always carried three ears of wheat in her hand, while over her head was broken a simple cake as a presage of plenty. Nowadays shortly after marriage a maiden stands a chance of having a broomstick broken over her head as a warning for the future.

Indignation has been created at Strathfield and Burwood. suburbs of Sydney, owing to the discovery that a retired squatter living in the latter suburb was suffering from leprosy. He had built a private lazarette attached to a new house at Strathfield, to which he was about to be removed.

The Daily Telegraph states that a gang of Hollanders in Pretoria are endeavouring to incite to disloyalty. Several deportations are expected. Hollanders in Pretoria .declare that trouble is brewing between Russia and Britain, affording the Transvaal an early opportunity to rebel.

Mr C. Dahl, the well-known importer and manufacture), of Palmerston, has a notice in to day relative to his stock ot tents, tarpaulins, rick and waggon covers, horse and cow covers, etc. Mr Dahl is an old established business man who has built up a large trade, by having secured the confidence of thoae who have purchased from him.

An old letter written from Wellington in 1841, recently found by a correspondent of a contemporary among his papers, states that in the previous year the building of a gaol at Wanganui was begun, and finished in February. The sawyers who worked in Colville’s bush contributed to its erection, for the Magistrate, instead of fining them in money for offences, ordered them to bring iooft of timber for the first offence, 200 ft for the second, and so on. The gaol only cost about £l2 in cash, and for some time after it was finished there were no prisoners to put in it, and the clerk to the Bench used it as a store tor potatoes and pumpkins. Writing of his railway ride through the theatre of war in South Africa, the correspondent of a New Zealand paper says:—lt is only when you have travelled at a very respectable speed for 50 hours or so through blockhouses, fences and cunningly-devised networks of entanglements that you can form any clear idea of the colossal magnitude of the scheme which K. of K. conceived and the patient hands of Mr Atkins executed. To begin with, the wire alone cost about £3,000,000 and over xo,ooo miles of it was used in Cape Colony between Beaufort West and De Aar, and from De Aar to Hanover road there are over 150,000 iron standards in the same districts, More than 1200 II) of portable material went to each blockhouses, and there are iso6 of them in Cape Colony alone. The imagination boggles at the task of transportation which the scheme entailed, and there is the proof of its accomplishment written, plainly in 800 miles of railway line.

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