OUR VOLUNTEERS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10596, 17 February 1896, Page 3

OUR VOLUNTEERS.

The Danediu Engineers, under Lieutenant Batchy (acting oaptain), muatered at the Garrison Hall at 10.15 a.m. yesterday for church parade. Thcro nan a good hiuster, some'7o rank and file pultiDg in nn, attendance, and the Euqiucers' Band (under Bandmaster Jackson), niupterinif 27. Tho men looked and marched eicpodiiigly well, ancj the band, played as it ajwnjs does—moot creditably! Staff Hargenntniajor M'Pherson, who paraded with tho company, ws» m,qch Pleased with the muster and boari»K of the men. The company inarched to A(I Ssints' Churoh, where they heard a powerful fermoa on ''Cbsvrlty'1 by'th'e Revi Mr C<iqhomi_ille. After service the men returned \a the Garrison Hall, where they werp dismissed. • ' ' :

The Sr«t stage of the batnllion buglo competition ysan fired qt Peliohot Bay on Satqrdsy last, when seven t«ai_(s toqlc'pMfc tfcia. City Guards headjng th« liet, wife' the JTqrtu Puuedin only I point behjqd, sad tho Port t^svals close up. The conditions of this mafcoh a_o : Towns of 10 men from each corps ;' two competitions at ranges 200 and 500, and 300 aud 60Q ; seven shotn, and optional sighter at each; tlio highest aggregate team i« tho two competitions to hpjd ctw batallion bugle foj: the year. The shooting was not up to the average, tome of the teams who fired' with the litest iosuo of ammunition complaining loudly a. to ita irregularity. The scores were :—

There are, sotnq remarkable figures to be ob! taiqed from the published statistics of New __ei\l-n,d pactoriefi "under the Act," and any cue wJj.q can spare the titpp vyill find it as fuiiny as Punch, $hip (GyOveYurrieut record of QU,r industries—not op account of the iuacturaojos contained therein, but in the astounding dimuueions of $ome of the protected industries. Feathers are "protected" to, the tuna of abopt 25 per cent., and us this is to be considered as protection, and not .as mere revenue-raising, it bphoveo us to know what we are protecting.; Iq the leading pity qf New Zealand there is *' under the Act "ah ostrich feather factory. So far, bo good; but the book goes further, and tells us how much the factory hands earn in their various occupations. That is where we look for revelafciana, for we have it on the best authority that the total wages paid ip. the above-mop HQaed, industry is £0 0« Qd pc? week, and we may veqture fio add a similar amount per niDora, In another branch of the local industries, rot altogether unconnected With the press, we find figures after this style—wo will not quota exactly as it might infringe copyright:—At 15 years of age boys earn 7«, girfs 5i pqr weefer but Rt 16 boys earn 6s, girls receive 9?; while at 17 years (most erratic boys and girJs) the young men receive 10s, whila-the girls get Si. It is nice reading, and calculated to tarn one's brain, if taken in too laygs quantities. Hpwevar, nothing is more Boo'liing to a brain worried by Government statistics than Old Judge Cigarettes. They eort#iply y>{\\ not v?ash clothes, but they are the best obtainable.

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