THE VOLUNTEERS.
The C.Y.C. camp at the show grounds yesbe.niay wvis open to visitors in the afternoon, and a. large nawfilber attended. Th« chief attraction was the playing of tJie Gar-» rison Band, which -occupied a position, neap the produce shed. The camp, will break) up to-day. The following were the results •in the: sports held by the Ashburton Mounted Rifles at Laghmo<r last Thursday:—Best troop horse—Trooper Stone 1, Lance-Cor* poral Lairib 2; potato race-—Trooper Silcock 1; Llcyd-Lindsay, Sergeant-Major Gibson, Corpora] Blunden, Troopers Blunders and Brucw 1 '■''exhibition- of horse trainingTroopers Hopwood and Williams; wrestling on horseback-—Coropoml Blunden, Troopers Hopwood and Williams; rescue rare—Oar* poral Blunden 1, Trooper Moore 2; officers* alarm—Lieutenant Harper 1, Lieutenants M'Lean 2; led sections by No. s—Trooper' Buckley 1; half sections over 'hurdles—Corporal Jeffs and Trooper M'Kay 1-; threading the needle —Trooper Moore 1; night* alarm—Corporal section 1. A""meeting id iik> Ashburton Mounted! Rifles was held in the camp at Lagtnhor on Friday night for the pui"pose of electing officers. Captain. Buckley had cabled his resignation, and Captain- Fooks was electee •to fill his position.. ; It was decided' to ash Mr J. Studholme, jun., to accept the lieutenancv.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume CVIII, Issue 12945, 13 October 1902, Page 2
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