VOLUNTEER INTELLIGENCE.

Patea Mail, Volume IX, Issue 1108, 5 November 1883, Page 3

VOLUNTEER INTELLIGENCE.

The Patea Rifles, wijl; notice by advertisements, in another column that they are tbhave a whole weeks shooting commencing oil the 12th inst. We are to point - out to every member of the corps that .lip matter, how many parades they have put in, it. is.ahsolutply necessary that- they go through the class firing and judging distance drill, otherwise they get- no capitation,' and further, they are liable to 1 the to bo sued for their capitation.. Ammunition will he provided by the Government both ; for class firing; and -district prizes: The ranges for the latter’were published in; the Mail bn the 26th of October. . On parade on the I?!hj Rergt. Nixon will take down, all thei; numbers of rifles and Sword bayonets, and on the 20th, Major Rtapp at the hiiistpr parade will inspect the wholp of the. proper tyj both that in the possession bfildie members, and that in storei' >;? We ;: Heed-Scardoly’yemind the members fb parade With elenti arms and accoutrements oh /.these two occjvsions,Any member of the Corps not having a rifle and accoutrements ,will at the drill at 8 o’clock, wheh the: Color-Sergt will be there for the purpose of j ssn in gr the m. XhßwsoM weekly/ parade will r bo postponed until Thursday at 7 o’clock sharp/ Members to be ’pnnclnal, as' Captain Taplin purposes I ' ma/ching them out thronghCthe town, accompanied/by* the band, prißV to the entertainment,,whicli is lobe given by the Rates Musickl and Dramatic Society, .in., aid. ofthe-Patea Rifle furid. - 0n -this; occasion Sergt Nntsford and Wpl . Carey will be.pre*; sented with/the medals given hy Mr HI/ P,.‘ Christie and Mr T. Haywood./*