OUR GALLANT VOLLANT VOLUNTEERS.
Oub martial ardor has not oooled m tb* least) indeed, it seems to he. inoreasing ia fervor as the chane# 0f ..» brush; witli-th* Natives becoißes more .-.--andl mor.& probable' through tha shiUy-shaliying ot the Government. In addition to the infantry cbrp% only waiting to he enrb^edj and trJudhl about 120 havik signified their intention of joining, the, formation of a cavalry, corps^i now under weigb. . Mr.'CEAiipjmhaetakeik the. .matter rana^d, and having cbmmunl-i oated with the pfecer. opntmandiDg the din-: jkrict on the subject, ha» been informtd that the minimum strength of a oavalry' v corps i# > fifty, and that unless t^atnumherguartntw to become "members,^ Major ba unable to recpmniend tt# C* eptinca of tiie- services of; the proposed corpft[" s A*' forty hava already promised to joinjltfeer* " will be no di|sculty m ob^aiping tb^e; r*fti|r site number of guarantors,^: The fot*jp«i eludes only^ivof those :ili|^fequisifcion for the infantry corps, so that the, WWiW?»i •%4j|* i ! 1 - QttUat bodjr wittnot fe%
weakened to any *snaterial extent by tne for- " knation of cavalry corps. It *eems that ;" the' delay m replying to the requisition of ithose wUliiif to joia the infantry arises tiirough iiaj'not having been submitted through tae,iproper chanuol. It should bave ; Wkn fe'nt to; Major Noaki, the officer commanding, and by him forwarded to the Government, instead o' being forwarded direct to the, Defence Minister.
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Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 51, 25 June 1879, Page 2
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229OUR GALLANT VOLLANT VOLUNTEERS. Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 51, 25 June 1879, Page 2
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