VOLUNTEER NOTES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 121, 17 June 1901, Page 2

VOLUNTEER NOTES.

(By VItTfIKAN.) An ioinenso concourse of people as semblei to witness the departure of the volunteeis who loft by special train for Welling: oil at 8.30 o'clock on Saturday evrn'ng. Thanks to fcVio admirable arrangements mide by Mr Day, Stationmaster, every detail of which was cirefully attsridad to by his cap i bio stiff', the entraining the men was carried outj expeditiously and without any trouble. A very wise plan was adop'ed of excluding the public from the plitform excep'ing tlvsi having bminess and relations of tha deparing tr.;opi wh'> personally applied to the Scationmas'.er for a pass. The entraining of the men and some hots°s was supniutendid by Adjutant TauntOD, who dessrvis grett credit for the way each corps was marche 1 in and entrained, everything goiag like do kworb. From the timi the first mm was admitted to the sta'iim only ten minuteelapsed before the last man was in his 'carriage. 180 men were entra n d in five carriages, the Garrison Band in the first, the Olcato mounts da nex', thei> the Rifles, then the Guards, at.d belaud them the officers. Toe Garrism Bind looked quite ra9p'endent with their new insraumenti and unifo ms. Sergt. List-r, of the Rifl s, bas bam elec'ed D, urn-major, and was gor- ' geou ; ly attired, his helmet, with i's red , plump, being th t admiration of all bel hoi ers. Colonel Ellis and actiugi Major Okey wore in comramd. | The t I'd in left amidst the cheers of the townspcop'e, and w,is exp etel to ; reach Welling oa abju l ; 10.30a.cn yeiterday.