VOLUNTEER NOTES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 127, 24 June 1901, Page 2

VOLUNTEER NOTES.

(By Vetera v.)

The r. view in Chtia'church to day pro<nisoi to ba the biggest thing of the sort sinre (he Imperial troops left the colony duiirg the Miori war. At MHibourne 4 1,500 troops were reviewed by the Duke of York, including 3,000 cadebs. AS Ohristchqrch it is expected thera will be 18,000 msn re via wed. Tee Tarnnaki Battalion arrived all safely in Ohristchurch, and bo.h cadeis and rifl g bad fine weither passages. There a-e over 3,ooocadets wembled at Ohristchurch. The New Plymouth boy's appear to be s'anding the roughing all right. A telegram received in Hawera states that threa boys —Wright, Tait, and Burgess—were in the Hespital ill. And la f er, Captain Strack wirjd:— "Splendid beds, food rough. Wright, T it and Boyd sligh'ly ill in the ho pit 1. No hing serious," and he was ! nuking the boys to dine at a restaurant. A wi; e was 8 n v . asking «if mon-y was required for bet er fcod. No reply had been vec-ived whea the Star went t i | press [ At Wanganui, a wire w.»s raosived from Captain Aitkin, in command of the Wani-anui cade f s, asking for money; He st-.ted that he was provisioning for boys independently of the Government catering, which is v ry unsatisfactory. Tlw t-1 epir.g ac ominodation, however, was first-clas 3 . The School Committee, in the Chronicle, appeals to the parents an! friends of the boys fur help, that they may be able to deal with the matler at once. No doubt Captain and Liieut-. Qrny hive taken go id care that the local cadets hava been well looked after, and the btys were re<l grit, and all well set up little sild'ers. The special correspondent of the New Zealand Timez, writing fr m Johannesburg says: Colonel Divies, lata Captain of thu Firs'; Contingent, is un•toubt lily ths m :nt popul ir of all the Nnv Zealand officers, His men abso'uteiy worship him. He unders'ands thnn, lo >k* aftsr thsm, and tieats thim as m n ph* ukl be treated, and they wou v d f.How him anywhere. Shortly after he took command of the Fourth hi ws promoted to colenel. flii m r n surrounded his tonfc, and oh e-ed him when they heard thi naws. He stepp id outtide, and said, " Men, I thai k you for this ozpiession of your goidwil l . But I have to thauk you for your pro-noti >n. You have earned it for me. This is all I have to sdy. Good nigh'." Cilonel Dav'es thinks just as highly of r is men as they think of him. In conversation with mi one day, he siid, "1 ws born in England, and I have seen mm in tha fi Id fuom ev-ry part of the Kmpirs. But give me 'hn New Z ialnndeis." He spoke v. ry highly i f the office s.