News From the Camps.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 4986, 20 April 1889, Page 3

News From the Camps.

NORTH CANTERBURY. The following allows the muster at the North Canterbury camp : Canterbury Yeomanry Cavalry—Captain Wright, Lieutenants Archer,Rhodes, and Chapman 38 Mounted Rifles—Captains Reece, Lieutehants Palairet, and Kilgour ... 28 E and C Battery of Now Zealand Artillery—Captains Martin and Jackson, and Lieutenant Jackson ... ... 67 Engineers—Lieutenant McGee 33 Timaru Navals —Lieutenant Wright ... 29 City Guards —Captain Bishop and Lieutenant Massey ... ... ... 44 College Rifles —Captain Harper, Lieutenants Day and Banmer 52 Christchurch Rifles—Captain Bristow, Lieutenants Bridge and Tosswill ... 35 Sydenham Rifles —Captain Anderson, Lieutenants Qoldingham and Wood 36 Scottish Rifles—Captain Campbell and Lieutenant McKay 29 Irish Rifles —Captain Whitesides ... 29 Eaiapoi Rifles Captain Whitefoord, Lieutenants Wilson and Millar ... 42 Bangiora Rifles Captain Fulton, Lieutenants Helmoro and Torlosso ... 43 Richmond Rifles Captain Bowron and Lieutenant Wray 27 Temuka Rifles Lieutenant Findlay, Lieutenant White 28 Ashburton Rifles Captain Dolman, Lieutenant Muller ... ... ... 33 Geraldine tides Captain Pearpoint, Lieutenants Ward and McKenzie ... 42 Timaru Rifles—Captain Jowsey, Lieutenants Wardrop and Bailey ... 33 Waimate Rifles —Lieutenant Oapstick ... 33 Garrison Band—Bandmaster Searell ... 16 Lieutenant-Colonel Lean, Majors Newall, Slater, Joyce, Francis, Young, Moore, Captain Commandant LaingMeason, Sergeant-Majors Finn, Barrett, and Jones, Drs. Hacon and Parsons 13 729 The whole brigade is under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Lean. Major H. Slater is Chief of Staff, Major S. Newall Brigade Major, Major Young Camp Quartermaster, Captain-Commandant Laing-Meason Camp Adjutant. The Rifle Corps in the North Canterbury district have been constituted No 1 Battalion, Major J. Joyce commanding, Major Francis Senior-Major, Captain M. Bowron JuniorMajor, Lieutenant W. Day Adjutant. The Rifle Corps of South Canterbury have been constituted No, 2 Battalion, Major Moore commanding, Acting-Captain Bryars Adjutant! The E and C Batteries are under the charge of Captain Martin, and work independently of the infantry. Reveille is sounded at 6 a m., guard mounting and company drill 7 a.m., breakfast 8, commissioned officers’ parade 11, dinner 1, parade 2 30, tea G, guard mounting 7, first post 9.30, last post, 10, lights out 10.30. The rations issued to each man daily consist of 1 Alba meat, lilbs bread, IJlbs potatoes, hoz tea, ioz coffee, 2oz sugar, ioz salt, l-36tb oz pepper, and 2oz candles. The corps do their own cooking, 'and are expected to have with them sufficient groceries to last four days. This latter injunction has berm most religiously attended to, and not a tent it without its little hamper of city luxuries, Each corps has to cook for itself, the Government finding fuel. AUCKLAND’*! POOR MUSTER. (By Telegraph.) AUCKLAND. April 20. The Easter encampment at Hamilton ii proceeding, but so far as numbers are con cerned it is a fiasco. The number of city auc iqbgrban corps is under 400, although it wa;

fully expected there would be close on 1000. The naval companies mustered well, but the rifles have only an average of twenty men per company. The Waikato, Waiuku, Wairoa, and other country corps bring the total strength to fiOO. The whole of the Navals come down to-morrow night to form a guard of honour to the Governor.