EXPEDITIONARY FORCE

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 89, 10 September 1914, Page 8

EXPEDITIONARY FORCE

UNDER SERVICE CONDITIONS. Per Press Asociation. : Palmerston i\'., September !). Rivopaekin-- is the new feature icf training tSiis. week. A thousand infantrymen marched out on Monday morning to Highden, at Awahuri, at .one tihne the Governor's comvtTv residence, -where they were bivouacked at night beneath the stare, under conditions' closely resembling active service, o™-- 1 ' man oarcarrying a greatcoat, and having -on thpJ luggage cart a blanket, and waterproof j sheet, which complete ]iis sleepini? pwtr. I Theii- 'ha'veraackft contained one meal for lunch, and .the men h-id breakfast i frcin the commissariat waggon*. Thej men looked forward with appreciation to this new n"vel o r<ment of their training. There will -lie.an attack practice in the neighiborWood of the Manawatu r'ver, and toutpost duty (lav and night. The week's work will .finish with a (march to Feildimr on Friday, for field operations, bivouac, and a anarch back on Saturday. . Tlie mounted Ejections «ri> Jiaving a RomewJiat .similar week. Their regiment left caomn this afternoon under "sealed ordiers. Thev will bivouac to-night, and engage in field oneratirms to-niion-ow, Guess work siiisreftts Awahuri as their 'definition, wHh tpio. wisrdbility of skirmishes! with the infantry. A golfing tournament hee-in* on "•-> lnc.il 'link,.- to-mo>-row for the Patriotic Fundi. Th»- nnpsencc in cn.mu of seven or eight All-Black footballers has led to m, mntcri being arranged for next fntriirdav on the showground*. betwwi the mm? and tno. Manawatu Kugby Union. SUPREME COURT. GREYMOUTII SESSIONS, : Per Press Asoeiation. Greymouth, Last Night. ThotSupreme Court opened this morning brfoTe Mr. Justice Hosking.' There were no criminal casee. A, discharge from bankruptcy was granted subject to signing an order to pay os in the £ o:i the amount of the proved debts., Alice .Tano White was granted a dissolution of marriage with WMliaon White, on the ground of desertion. i