EASTER ENCAMPMENT.

Colonist, Volume XXVII, Issue 3881, 31 March 1884, Page 3

EASTER ENCAMPMENT.

The meeting of the Volunteer officers and representatives was held at the Drill Shed on Saturday night, and was very well attended, each corps in the district being represented, Major Pitt, who presided, informed the meeting that a communication had been received to the effect that the Government could not provide transport for the Volunteers, and endeavors had been made to arrange with the Anchor Line of steamers for the conveyance of Volunteers to Wellington and back" He had received an offer from that company, which was found, on reference to the financial position, to be beyond the extent of the funds at the disposal of the Volunteers. It was therefore decided to &ndefctoi to arrange for a further reduction of the charter, and the result will be made known on parad.e on Tuesday. In answer to a question, Major Pits informed the meeting that Island Bay, where the camp is to be held, is not the Quarantine Island as some appear to have supposed, but in the locality of the race course, at the Te Aro end of Wellington. i The Accident on the Bacecourse.—Our I readers will be glad to learn that Mr Twist continues to improve. We hops to fiee him convalescent in a few days. Sunday Evening Lecture.—At the Masonic Hall last evening Mr 0. E Hugo delivered a lecture on " Utilitarian Morality " to a good attendance. He took as a text a passage from Geothe. The lecturer contended that the utility or non-utiiity of acts and beliefs determine their virtue or vice versa. There was no fixed immutable standard of morality, but the standard was determined by circumstances and conditions. The moral law followed the course of evolution, and had progressed from the time of Moses to the present time. He instanced several precepts which, though they were moral in the age in which they were given, yet could not be so termed from our standpoint. The lecturer illustrated and contrasted the schools of Plato and Epicuruß as bearing upon the philosophy of ethics, and compared them with the idealistic and gensational schools of modern times as represented by Kant, Hegel, ! and Carlyle on one side, and Voght and J. iS. Mill on the other. He admitted that utilitarianism was selfish, but so was every feeling connected with man. He repudiated the charge of sensualism as brought against utilitarianism, and quoted from D, F. Straus the folly ef such an assertion. The lecturer was frequently applauded, and at the conclusion several questions were asked, and replied to by the lecturer. We are requested to state that Dr MacCar thy v compelled to remain in Nelson for a short time to attend to an important case, and that consequently be may be consulted at Eose Lodge, Nile-street. Shooting.—The return match between the H Battery and the Wakapuaka members of the Nelson City Bifles was -fired on Saturday afternoon at the Wakapuaka range, when the Artillery were again victorious, beating their opponents by 41 points. The ranges and number of shots were the same as in the previous match, viz., 200 and 400 yards, seven shots at each range. The following are the scores :—

Artillery. 200yda Corpl Doyle .. 26 Sergt Wimsett .. 29 Gunner Frazer .. .25 Gunner Clark .. 26 Gunner Wimsett .. 24 Gunner Smallbons.. 21 400yds Tl. 30 56 26 55 27 52 24 50 25 49 15 36 — 298 Wakapuaka. 200yda Oorpl Alborough .. 26 Sergt Gill .. .. 25 Private Small .. 21 Private Barnett .. 26 Private Dodson .. 23 Private Blanchett.. 21 • I 400yels TI. 28 64 19 44 22 43 15 41 16 ..„ 39 • 15 36 257