THE VOLUNTEERS.

Evening Post, Volume XLVI, Issue 21, 25 July 1893, Page 3

THE VOLUNTEERS .

The weekly drill of the City Rifles, which took place last evening ot the Volunteer Drillshed, was well attended, there being a mnster of 37 of all ranks, undor Captain Collins. The corps was kopt bnßy from the " fall in " to the " dismiss." Sqnads were formed for arm-drill under Corporals Harris, Robertbon, and C. Guise, at which they were kept for some time. They were then taken in band by Sergeants Madelcy and Barnes, who exorcised them in marching drill, ColorSergeant Davis putting them through the sword-bayonet exorcise. The remainder of evening was devoted to half-company and section movements under Captain Collins. At the close of tho drill it was notified that the noxt Government parade wonld take placo on Monday, 7th Anguat, when the Shooting Committee for the coming season would be elected. Arrangements -are now being made to complete tho class-firing of the corps during the coming month. Tho time for doing so will be duly announced.

Apropos of the paragraph respecting the Intramarine Supply Company and Mr. Yecht, published yesterday, Mr. Vecbt informs us that the experimental New Zealand company to which we referred consists of six well-known capitalists, who pnt down .£SOOO each for purely preliminary oxpenscs. and the capital, now that the pork has stood the tests to which it has been submitted, will be largely augmented. The first works to be erected will be at Ngahauranga, should Mr. Boyden, tho company's architect, report favourably. Amongst thoso interested in the concern are the Stockvia family — tha " Dutch Rothschilds " — and a younger member of the family is to take charge in New Zealand. About 20 years ago a lad named Allen, while playing at Pioton, placed a manuka bii" in one of his ears. An operation waa performed by Dr. Tripe, Wellington, who was then in practice in Picu>n, and it was believed that the patient wonld Buffer no inconvenience. A few days ago, however, Allen, who is now an operator in the Telegraph Office at Blenheim, became qnite deaf, and Dr. Cleghorn's sorviecß being invoked, that gentleman cut into the ear, and extracted the bug, which was fonnd embedded in tho wax. The hearing has been quite restored. A marvellous Bight is to be seen at Orakei Korako at present, in the shape of an intermittent geyser which has recently broker out and from which a pillar of water ii ejected to suoh a height that it goes out ol sight and is dissipated in mist and vapour. A night of Irish songs and a comio song contest is the order of the Sixpenny Populai Concerts to-morrow evoning. An attractive programme has been arranged, and appears >n our advertising columns. The comw song contest promises to result in akeer. competition.