COLLEGE RIFLES.

Press, Volume LI, Issue 8729, 27 February 1894, Page 5

COLLEGE RIFLES.

The College Rifla Company held iba tonus! march out on Saturday last. Leaving fcwa by the evening train thirty-five strong lader Lieut. Norman Smith in command, we intention was to detrain at Soubhbrook *-« " feel the wav " into Ringiora pasb tho eutposts of the* Raugiora Rifles, under «*b-in G. H. N. Helmore, which were expected to be po3ted across the country to intercept tlie approach of a supposed enemy, utnrever, the weather was very wet, and « Was decided to go on to Ringiora. Pass- & a third force in mufti, which ~**y be described as rebel artillery, fired a jW'dgunatthe train with less effect than 'o* process of pasting a notice *£««» the line to the purport that ten "Supers had been torn up would have beeu. japing the fusilade the Company reached and from thence set out by the **«way line to turn the flank of the rebels *ith W< L re - successfull y routed, making off rjwi their cannon on a carrier's a ray, supposed to have been shot through *M throagh hy the attacking force. In the "?*»» of the preliminary skirmish the £*"giora Rifles took up positions along the _b__V tlad hed S e s from tbe end of Perceval **™t to tbe Burton Brewery, and in three Jfctions replied to the fire of the attacking «K-euatil the sound ot '• cease fire," when '"" th. ool^8 met ~ d heartily fraternised, while 1 offc *^ de - ts °f the district hospitably both sides fruit, &c The umpire W prevente< l from attending owing to the r*"y ram so that the result; of the fight J* I*'1*' decided. Tbe companies marched _tbe Rangiora Drill Hail, where the j_J**S° were encamped on the Sunday, " SJr Xngat Murr ay's Red Lion Hotel. In * v «wng a smoke concert was held and •** *iWo corps shot off a Morria tube match, : w «ch the College won by 36 points. t

"Lights out" was sounded at 11.30 p.m. On Sunday the programme was reveille at 6 a.m., squad drill at 6.30, breakfasts, church parade 10.50, dinner 1 p.m., and company drill 3 p.m. At tho church parade the College Rifles were joined by tho Rangiora Corps, thirty strong, under Captain Helmore, Lieutenants D'Auvergne and Torlesse, and both companies marched to St. John's Church, where the Rev. F. P. Fendall, Chaplain of the local corps, preached from Isaiah xlvi. .8, " Remember this, and show yourselves like men." The College Rifles returned to town in the evening iu-drags, soma leaving at 5.30 p.m. aud the rest at 8.30 p.m., after having had a pleasant and useful outing.