THE VOLUNTEERS.
» Tho B class members of tho 1) Battery will firo the fifth competition for tho Sorgt.Major's clock and aggregate prizos on Saturday noxt, at Polbill Gully range. Conditions 200 and 400 yards, ten shots at each, commencing at 2 o'clook. Ammunition s.t tho Drillshed on Friday night at 8. There was a parade of tho Wellington Navala last night, about CO of all ranks being present. Liont. -Commander Duncan and Lieutenant Campbell wero in command. Snb-Lieut. Bell was absent owing to a family affliotion. A squad of the port watch assembled :vt tho Mount Cook Barracks, where Lieut. Hume, of the Permanent Artillery, instructed them in 6-inch gnu exercise. Tho remainder of the watch werq present at the Drillshed, where Sorgt.-Major Neville delivered a looture on tho theoretical part ol gunnery. The starboard watph were instructed by tho Torpedo Corp in submarine mining.
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Evening Post, Volume XLIII, Issue 141, 16 June 1892, Page 3
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