EASTER VOLUNTEER ENCAMPMENT.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 74, 6 April 1885, Page 3

EASTER VOLUNTEER ENCAMPMENT.

Saturday Aftornoon'a Doings.

Jjt our last issue wo gave an account of tho doings of our Volnntcors at Papatootoo up to Umoe o'clock on Friday afternoon. By ithat tim® the men had follon into thoir duties with .rmnarkable facility, the placing , OT _or arrest of sovorol members of tho A Battery of Artillery on the previous ovoning for giving undue ploy to their animal spirits laving bad a salutary offoct. Captain Jfahon, in his position as camp-adjutant, is a jewel of tho first water, and eminently fitted for the service as a strict disciplinarian from his thorough acquaintance with the somewhat intricate routine ol camp life. Ever ready to give artvico and impart instruction, he has proved himself simply invaluable, and the groat, measure of success that has attended tho Mcampment is greatly due to his efforts. But to return to the duties of Saturday afternoon. Shortly after three o'clock there was a general parado in drill ordor (or outpost and picket duty. There is an eminence to the south-east of the camp, which some oxploring members of the Victoria Company christeued Mount Mahon. Outposts and pickets were formed to the right of the hill, under the command otCartauisLeßoyandDignan. Skirmishers were sent out under command of Captains llahon and Isaacs. Major Shepherd detailed.the duties to the sovoral outposts. Tho country is rather rough, and the Major and Captain Woolfield in galloping ahouton the fluty took sovoral fences in a manner that would have won the praise of ffliyte Melville himself. After the inspection of the pickets the outposts wero supposed to be driven in on the main body .(represented by a half company) by an jmsgtaary enemy. The firing motions wore gone through, and after a gallant reigbtance of about five minutes, ■the enemy were supposed to be completely nnuuished, The bugle thon sound"Cease firing," and the deathless h •**■ were marched back to camp, when - -^f O3 gUdtofind that the casualties lite tea the quarter and «, ' c™ *#• paraded, relieving those w' .«& ** S3i Lens day's duty. m&W **«• *J° Litre Captain P.' *Sfe oncers'of tho Ed tier' .f^n.oftheHobson «3i«offi' -f fl* } V VE> Bennett! '*» <@ .fffMlho City Guards. Picket gj& with great vigilance, jjfe wore posted over the canteen f .wwaanding officer's quarters. The «*B_tant ___, on several occasions awss _s night, to compliment thoso *___wirft_ro picket drawn from tho City flMnftiadtheVictoria for the promptitude m&.fiiich they assombled at tho posts «M the celerity with which thoir diw were performed. Shortly before 10 eclock I drummer aud fifer paraded the aapfhying lively tunes, and when the , tm_ 10 o'clock arrived tho bugle sounded "lights out," and the camp was at once in dJrtaess, Dwrtiig tho afternoon the Very Bererend Father Walter Macdonald and flußev, Mr Bates arrived in camp, and nwwry warmly welcomed. Father Macwtlld, who held a chaplain commission •jflwdbythe 'Governor, Was quartered in Captain Dignan's tent in " Hobson-street," *Me quarters wott> found for Mr Bates WiCaptain Fenton. Writing about Capw» i'snton reminds as of the two Naval Arfiljery Corps in camp. Both these bodies •re Behaving themselves in a creditable •wraer, and their roHicking fun is products of great ameeetnent. |»__a_toy, incident occurred the othor tight, which is well worth recording, A ™s*le having arisen between two members "WWaiukuand Te Awamutu Cavalry Mto which was the fleetest of foot, it was todded to institute a foot race. Both men W*ared on the track in puris naturabilia, win the exception of their shirts, and just Mthe starts? gave the word, some jokersdolJgMth pedestrians with buckets full of WW* The race was run, and then one Of wranners and his camp mate sallied forth «find the aggressors. On returning from m r hunt, they found that the jokers had Wed down their tent in their absence. The language used may be better imagined ™«n described, "tJ_\ *il} n, (l*7 morning the men assembled «Up clock for divine service. They iSg'_!!?lnmn by thQ M*. and were ■wtpeetedhy Colonel Lyons, who arrived on Vn previous evening. Tho Catholic sor•We was conducted by Father Macdonald, Ml ««pbmented the men on their discip"ne,%6d expressed the satisfaction he felt Mm_ amongst them. He then preached 3 Went Easter sermon. The Church « angiand service was conducted by m Key. Mr Bates, in tho open air, TLT ,onnin X a complete square. 4Her dinner, a number of mon obtainod ISS'.,™ ™i* friends at Otahuhu «M adjoining Bettlements. A number of JWorscama from town during the aftervX,? nd remade very welcome by tho vetoes. The band played a number of gsttons outside the commanding officer's :^^ :S eSacred Lyre," being