THE RDIFLE TEAM FOE ENGLAND.

Evening Post, Volume LIII, Issue 79, 3 April 1897, Page 6

THE RDIFLE TEAM FOE ENGLAND.

TO THE EDITOB. SiE — Can you inform me how it is that the officer commanding the Wellington district has uot yet called a meeting of volunteers to decide if two representatives shall go to Bisley this year ? Also, selection and ways and means. Even if Parliament will not pass the amount, surely £200 could be raised by volunteers and their friends. Other districts have picked their men and are raising funds. Why uot the Empire City ? I have seen reports in your paper of those likely to be selected. Selected by whom ? Has a Selection Committee been established ? I think the best way would be to call a meeting of volunteers, appoint a committee to canvass the town for subscriptions, and also to carry out the arrangements for the competitions. I think every right-thinking man in "Wellington will admit that Vol. A. Ballinger must be selected as the first man, and the second place should be competed for by those who are known to he real good men, such as Williams, Howe, Kirk, Turner, Hale, Hawthorne, Love, and others. There would be no hole-and-corner business about this, and it would give satisfaction to all. Thanking you in anticipation, I am, ifcc, Faik Plat. Wellington, 25th March, 1897.

On the occasion of the reading of the Governor's Speech to Parliament on "Wednesday, the mounted contingent now in training for the Queen's celebrations will furnish the escort to His Excellency the Administrator, and the "Wellington College Cadets will lorm the guard of honour, while the D Battery will fire the salute. The District Orders to this effect appear in another column. The -popularity and success of the cycling sports •meetings on the Exhibition cycling track at Exhibition time may be taken as a guarantee that a substantial share of the public patronage will be accorded to the sports meetings to be held on the track during the coming winter months, with the object of providing assistance for the unemployed. The first of these meetings has been arranged for next Saturday, and an. excellent .programme has been prepared. Entries will close next Tuesday evening. The inspection of the as. Queen of the South by Mr. Duncan, Chief Inspector of Machinery, has been completed. It is found that the stern frame will have to he takeD out, the rudder to be pretty well renewed, 30 feet of sheating aud steel plating will be u«eded, and three plates in other parts of foe hull to he sheathed, while about 100 new :rivet3 must be put in. An excellent orchestral concert was given last evening at St. James's Presbyterian Schoolroom, Newtown, iv aid of the building fuad, under the conductorship of Mr. C. fl. King, choirmaster, with Mr. A. Burnett j as teader of the orchestra. The orchestral selections and part songs wore excellently performed, and the song of Miss Butter, and instrumental solos by Misses A. IJurnett and A. Wilson were warmly encored. Miss Ethel Billman was afc the piano, which was kindly lent by the Company. The famous Huia Minstrels will give a concert at Johnsonville on next Friday evening iv aid of the school funds of that < township, tho occasion being the re-opening of the recently-enlarged Oddfellows' Hall. Pollard's Opera Company will conclude a successful seaßon of five nighte in New Plymouth to-nisjhj. On Monday and Tuesday they visit Wanganui, and on Weduesday their season of -eight nights will be inaugurated at the Opera House, in Chassiigne's charming work "Talka." This apera was originally brought to the colonies "by the firm of Rignold and Alison, and was first produced at the Opera House, Melbourne, where it ran to crowded houses for twelve weeks, the gross receipts exceeding £18,000. ' The No. 1 Co-operttive Building Society of Wellington will lioida loan-appropriation meeting on the 15th. lust. The particulars are advertised. Tho business community and tho invosting public will be interested in tho announcement which appears in onr advertising columns in referonco to tho estato of the late Sir Patrick Buckley. Tho valuable freehold sections fronting Cuba - street and Victoria street, at tho rear of tho Opera House, suburban lands at Vogoltown and Bjlbirnie, and a country section at Fitzherbert, form tho bulk of lho estato. All these properties will bo sold by public anotion oa Thursday tho 22nd inst., the sale boing J-ield jointly by T. Kennedy Macdonald & Co., Ltd., and Franciß Sidoy & Co., Mr. Sidoy acting as auctioneer. The special valuo of tho land in tho centre of the oity will doubtless attract the attention of our local capitalists. It's in tho mouth of every man, woman, and child. Soo afyertisement with this bending.

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