VOLUNTEERS.
At Wednesday’s parade of the Highland Rifles there was a muster of forty-seven members. After -parade a general meet, iug of the corps was held at the rooms in Cuba street. A letter was considered which had been *reoeived from, the firm in Christchurch-which has in hand the contract for supplying the corps with a counterpart of the uniform ‘of the Sea, forth Highlanders. The sporran in this uniform should be made of beaver. Owing to the difficulty experienced in obtaining a supply of this material in the colony the contract is "hanging fire. It will therefore “be a matter of a month or two before the corps can parade in the garb of old Gaul. At the Central Drillshed. this evening an issue of the new- magazine rifles will bo made to some of the city corps.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4412, 19 July 1901, Page 5
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