THE VOLUNTEERS.
The City Rifles, under Captain Fairbairn and Lieutenants Hawdon and Louisson, paraded in good numbers last evening for inspection by Major Day. The corps did aplendid work. The members of the newly-formed cycle corps paraded last evening for recruit drill under Staff Sergeant-Major Barrett. The corps work very well together. The marksmen's badges for 1897 have now arrived, and are of the regulation pattern of silver braid.
(press association , telegram.)
WELLINGTON, May 9.
The New Zealand Natives' Association has decided to form a volunteer corps, not, however, confined to members of the Association. The Premier, who was pi esent at the meeting, said the Government had decided to increase the volunteer force to 7000, and had ordered 5000 rifles and 1000 carbines, besides 4,000,000 rounds of ammunition. Colonel Pole Penton said that in addition to existing companies, he would like to see in Wellington a torpedo, engineer, and bicycle corps, an adequate medical staff, and three more rifle corps. The volunteer movement in Wellington, he said, was very backward.
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Press, Volume LV, Issue 10032, 10 May 1898, Page 6
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