VOLUNTEER INTELLIGENCE.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVII, Issue 4356, 1 August 1871, Page 2

VOLUNTEER INTELLIGENCE.

To - day the Volunteers will assemble to form a guard of honour for his Excellency the Governor, when he leaves this city for the South. They assemble at half • past ten o'clock at the Barracks. The annual meeting of the members of No. 6 Company Auckland Rifle Volunteers was held last night at the Orderly Boom, Princes-street, Captain Batger in the chair. The following promotion! vrere made :— Sergeant Bullock, to bo colour-sergeant, and Lance-Sergeants Ellis and Chalmers to be full sergeants. Several matters in connection with the internal management of the company were ducuaatd, and the accounts passed. The memben of No. 2 Company Auckland Naval Volunteers assembled at Fort Britomart last night, and fired a few rounds of blank cartridge, in preparation for the salut* to be fired on the occasion of his Excellency the Governor's departure to-day. Mr. Yon der Heyde has signified his acceptance of the captaincy of No. 2 Company A.X.V. His election by the members of that company was notified a few days ago.

A certain minister was not over-fastidious about his wardrobe. One day, meeting his brother, who was also a divint, he was censured by him for being ao careless about his dress, and espeoially reprimanded for wearing striped trouaers, it being altogether unclerical. Whereupon the humorous preacher retorted by saying, "Brother my religion, does not lie, in my bteechejk"