VOLUNTEER AND SERVICE JOTTINGS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13796, 8 July 1908, Page 4

VOLUNTEER AND SERVICE JOTTINGS.

. - ' TO CORRESPONDENTS. Coxdox. ; AwAklno.— the ' rules of the New Zealand Rifle AmocUUou whenever there i* • a ; tie ; with the handicap the : score : , off - the rifle » decides it. ; '; Condon > therefore ■ win* by three ; 'point*.-/ 5 {BY SENTINEL. : { './';' . Thk Non-Commissioned Officers' Club ball ; -will take place in the {Royal Albert Hall ', on August .21. ;;{.;, : /;; .t; {-/.-;{-{ ,*;{{; The v Defence Department ' is sending a Maxim gun to Gisborne for the use of tie local volunteers. The guns of the A" Battery : have been ' fitted with circular steel lights, which me a great improvement on the old wooden ,'. gun arcs. • A party of the "Victoria Rifles will- meet .. a team-from'the remainder of the First In- {; fantry Battalion in a shooting match at ii Penrose on Saturday. : A squadron consists in the army of two ' troops of men, of from. 60 to 100 each ; and • in the navy, of a • section of; a fleet on [ special duty under a flag officer. - ' Sergeant-Major Wilson, of headquarters > : staff, Wellington, is at present in Auckland k instructing the officers and non-commi-s----r sioned officers of the "A" -Battery in geneJ work- ' ' .' No. 1 Natives are now within sis of tfieir ': maximum strength, and as there; are yet f f 'fine months of the volunteer year to m, ;-■: thev should have no difficulty in capitatirig • at full strength. _ I { / Sereeant-Major Rose, late Second '"ime- , ron Highlanders, recently,arrived: in J] the Dominion, has succeeded Staff-Surgeon-l-l Major Colclough, at Wellington, the latter ,' having been transferred to Nelson. I /The members of the Non-Commissioned • Officers' Club mustered v strongly at their - . clubrooms on Friday evening, when a pro- ? {gressive{euchrß party took place. {Cor- "; poral Jones won the prize, a pocket knife. % On Friday evening Captaip Dawson will ". give address to members, but his subject • has riot yet been announced. 7 ' b It . is'reported that there -was "much e swearing and -\ gnashing of teeth" at' this s announcement, but the men a shamd; fight amongst themselves afterwards, and in 1- the: evening a smoke concert was held, a everyone returning home satisfied. The i, Franklin Mounted ; Rifles are admittedly the :, best mounted corps in the province, if. not i, ; in New - Zealand, arid •it is doubtful; if any e other company in the Dominion could have d mustered {in/ such strength at such short :-/, notice as did Captain McKenzie's troop ,on ;, Saturday. ►- {;';{"/'! : .!~^.:>?'iv' : ..'' '■'?• "'"'.' { '• '-■'/: : -";-'.-"-'--;■-'-; \* The annual meeting of the Auckland '*: Volunteer Rugby Union was held last we&j j' - when the election of I officers for the ensufug year {resulted as follows:—Patron, 6 Lieutenant-Colonel G. C. B. Wolfe; vice . presidents, Captains W. H. Hazard; H. G. J* Forbes, Little, Gr/uit;{R. G. Cox, : Chas. J „ Smith,: Major Patterson, Honorary Colone! T- Dignan, Lieutenants Potter, Burgess, AUnr- ;" ran, Surgeon-Major Gore-Gillon, Surgeon- '. Captains Inglis and Ferguson,' the Hon '"/j Ge^:; Fowlds, "arid Messrs. Walklate and '*■' .Kahri;»jAanagementiCommittee,; Sergeant- % Major Jackson (chairman), , Sergeant Grace. _j Corporal {Binns, Bombardiers Burrage! '* and .; Dixon, and Private Cameron; secre- . tary ; and ; treasurer, Sergeant Brew; audi- | tors, Lieutenant Morton and Sergeant Par- % -ker..{{Clip entries will close at the Drill J Hall on July 14. > ~ f> The Franklin Mounted Rifles held a sur q prise muster at Clevedon on Saturday. II ~ nad previously been arranged between Cap. g tains McKenzie and Whyman,- of the Frank s lin and Pukekohe Mounted Rifles respec;t tively, that the latter corps should make ar attack on Clevedon, without his (Captair - McKenzie's) officers and men knowing any { thing of the arrangements. The Franklin! ; were accordingly called together on Satur j. dav morning, and 41 men mustered, all o! ■7, them having to leave their-work unattend --.' ed. { The Pukekohe men did not put in ar ® appearance, but Captain Wbyman had pre £ yiously told Captain McKenzie 'of his in _ ability to make the proposed attack. ; Tlm t Franklins, however, occupied some of th« £ more prominent positions around the town y.; and at two o'clock they were called to Y & gather at the "battalion " office, ') when thej ■ were informed that their Opponents wen 0 _ going to be a minus quantity. 16 -:•;..- .* ;;',.'— ~. ... . 7"{ ;,. _.. —-. /-'.{■