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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1798, 22 August 1906, Page 21

The boatswain’s pipe, which has been displaced in the British navy by bugle calls, is to be restored to favour. The officer commanding the Wellington district has issued a district order for a field day of all arms at Miramar c\i Saturday, September Ist. The general idea is that a foreign fleet has landed a force (blue) on the Miramar peninsula, and the Wellington garrison is mobilised to oppose it. The attacking force, which will be commanded! by Lieutenant-Colonel Collins, will consist of the First Wellington Rifle Battalion of four hundred men. It will parade at the central Drillshed, and 1 proceed to the Miramar jetty by the Duoo. The defending force, which will be commanded by Major Brandon, wilt comprise three guns of the D Battery, a squadron of the Heretaunga Mounted Rifles, the Field Hospital and Bearer Corps, Wellington and St. Patrick’s College Cadets, Petone, Upper Hutb, and Karori Rifle Clubs, and Garrison Band. It will parade at the Buckle street Drillshed, and proceed to take up its position on the high ground southeast of Newtown Park, and overlooking Lyell Bay. Blank cartridges will be used. The Commandant, General Babington, will witness the operations. With the completion of the proposed agreement between the Wellington City Council and Mr G. H. Baylis, the question of a, good line of road from Island Bay to the point on the Island Bay side of Ohiro Bay will apparently bo set at rest. The Council had road rights right along the coast, but there was a dispute at a point where it was alleged the sea had encroached, causing a small shallow bay near Mr Baylis’s quarry. The Council claimed that it was still entitled to an 80ft strip of land inside this bay. The present agreement provides that a part of the bay shall be filled in, and that the road shall be carried straight across instead of round it; Mr Baylis to supply the stone for a rubble retainingwall and material for filling, the Council to do the work. The result will bo to provide a road 80ft wide, metalled for a width of 33ft. On the agreement being concluded, the Council will remove the caveat against Mr Baylis’s title, which caveat has, it seems, been standing since the days of the Melrose Borough Council. Ohiro Bay is the bay at the bottom of Happy Valley. Despite the present lack of roading, and even in winter time, the walk from Brooklyn down Happy Valley and round to Island Bay has become a popular one with both sexes, especially since Brooklyn and Island Bav are both served by tramway. ’