OUR DEFENCE FORCES.

Evening Post, Volume LXIII, Issue 87, 12 April 1902, Page 6

OUR DEFENCE FORCES.

An engineering instruction parade >of th« Engineer Corps was held on Tim's?* day cveuing under Lieuts. T-ono-. a»d^ Lauchlan. fho heliographs having orriv---ed from England tho Mguallhig-Fquud'hnd); tl>eir first lesson in heliograph -siguaUiug.i After parade a eliooting trophy presented^ by Mr. Gcorgo Winder, was handed to^ "tiio winner, Acting Corporal Campbell. This week's General Orders from ihcf Commandant st.ito that Arthur M'KcHar Wix has been appointed Acting Capt/vi*i : . and Adjutant of tho 2nd Battalion, W«?ilington Rifles. Edward John Coppen-lias; been appointed Acting Lieutenant, Day.master, and Quartermaster of tho same -battalion. Lieutenant D. R. Mcnzics,.of tho '-Wei-' lington Navals, baa been' granited sixj months' leave of absenco .-from 'tho. co-< lony. } The temporary tran.«ferA'of "&Uiff:Sargt.-i Major Tuck from Wclliii,!?unrtoj.tbe/Auekv land district has bcou uppi-ovpii. ? . The conditions of the Hurgood -Cup-com-petition for Voluntceis for -1&e- year* end--in^ 28th Pcbruai-y, 1902. aT»nnslinbed-.in+ thra week's General Ciders. ,' The Rev. A. Inncs JorjC3 I/as been ap- ' pointed Chaplain of tho ,Fdi/ding Mx»unted Rifle Volunteers. t - ' \Ut TKtEORAVn— ri*tt3«V ASSOCIATION.* CARTFitTOiN, This Day! The clock presented bjy Lieut. Jury to the South Wairarapa Moimted Rifles hag been won by 'Private .Ackerman.