HAMILTON CAVALRY CONTTNGENT HALF – YEARLY DRILL.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 767, 17 May 1877, Page 2

HAMILTON CAVALRY CONTTNGENT HALF - YE ARL Y DRILL.

Tnii Hamilton contingent of the Te Awamufcu Oavulry troop finished their week's drill yesterday, Lieutenant Hmherfoi'd- putting -the -men,-^ j'esterday morning . through their manoeuvres, in cbnaequeneeOof the labaenbe of Sergeant: Alujor Fraser from- parade, who, ■ that morning,, had, rccei.rei by post djstressv ing intelligence of t'lie -death of tvjo 'near reialives. I?he corps itself is becoping exceedingly 'popular. When the Week's drill began.. on Thursday lust, there Iwere only, twenty men. " Yesterday tjienumber had increased by eiglit . new/ 'recruits., SeveraV more haye^siginfl'jd their,-..iulen-' tion of joining, ' and.jiV^is ''expected; that before the; next . half-yearly' r ciriil time comes round the- corps will have, beau increased to full forty members. :. •

The old members of the corps, both men and horses, have already attained a high degree of. efficiency. The several mauseuvrod are executed ' with celerityand precision; indeed, amougst the corps are some old cavalry men, of the Hue; and Colonial forces, which fact, no doubt, contributed in bringing , the ; small troop to its present state of discipline. 1 On Tuesday the aaen went out to the Butts to fire with the Sneider carbine. The weather was far from favourable, being very squally. The folio mug were the scores : —

Yesterday before dispersing for J»heir homes the members of the corps, with several of their Hamilton friends, got up a Paper hunt over the paddocks and open ground between the cutting and No 1 "Bridge. The chase was led off by Mr W Martyn on- Tommy Dodd, and eventually brought to a close by the game little horse taking a fence which none of the others coidd tackle. There were several spills which added to the general enjoyment.

•' 150yd 200yd 300yd Tl Lt Rutherford 15 14 11 40 Sgt Johnson 19 To 15 49 Corp Seddon 16 10 10 36 Trooper Cox, EB 17 13 14 44 " Cox, S 5 17 10 32 > Coleman IS 13 . 9 40 " Davis, J 9 I'2 7 28 ." Gelling 10 9 10 29 « Hunt, H 12 13 7 32 " Hunt, T 8 7 9 24 " Hay, WM 19 19 15 53 " McNicol, J 14 14 - 12 40 . ■««. !Nei!son,W 14 10. 11 .35 " Pilling, F- 717 17 11 45 "' Pilling, E 13 ■' 11 6 30 " Pearson, W 20 18 10 48 " Riddler, J 12 14 10 36 " Wood, J 16 13 13 42 " Wright 17 15 4 3 6 " Taylor, A 7 "7 7 2 1 " Sandes, T 10 6 7. 23 V Smith, J., 9 ;15: 5 2 2