VOLUNTEER INSPECTION.

Colonist, Volume XXX, Issue 5018, 29 September 1887, Page 3

VOLUNTEER INSPECTION.

I The usual monthly inspection parade of the Volunteers took place last evening, when considering that tbe College Cadets were not present owing to the Michaelmas holidays at tha College, the attendance was very good, the total number being 224. After inspection the battalion marched to the Botanical Gardens Reserve, and the men under Colonel Ktt and Major Webb drilled remarkably well. Tha strength of each Company was as

9 1.0.G.T.—A soiree under the auspices of H the Loyal Kelson Lodge will be held at the fl Theatre to-morrow (Friday) evening. Besides M focal and instrumental music, a dramatic ■ performance will be given by aome wellM uown amateuri. ■ Ordination.—An ordination service will b« ■ held at the Cathedral at eleven o'clock this jH morning, when his Lordship the Bishop will ■ limit the Rev. George W. York and the Bey. M Reginald Hermon to priests' orders. The M sermon will bo preached by the Key. W. Q. I Cokcebt ax Richmond.—lt will be observed ■ jbat a concert is to be given at the Odd-Fel- ■ lowa' Hall, Bichmond, to-morrow evening. <fl *i w excellent programme has been pre- , ■ Pared, and the proceeds are to be devoted to ■ '-ue local Institute, there will doubtless be a ■ «ige audience present. ■ The Gabbison Band.—Mr P. Trask, who 8 p&9 appointed to receive subscriptions for the ■ "prison Band towards obtaining a new set m c[ instruments, desires to -acknowledge the 9 riceipt of £2 from Mr J. R. Dodson for the ■ Purpose mentioned. ■ Habmonio Society's Concebt. —The Har- ■ ?ionio Booiety's concert, which will take place - | in the Provincial Hall this evening, will com--1 u O9 at the «sual hour. I . Masonio.—The annual election of office 1 «raM rß of the Trafalgar Boyal Arch Chapter 1 « Nelson, No. 157, 8.C., took place, as pre- ■ v '°ißly announced, on Tuesday evening last, at I !,, ne. w Masonic Hall, Trafalgar street. The ■ 1 l 0 were tl?e offioers elected for the | uiung year :-lst Principal Z., Comp. W. 1 JJ°*n; 2nd Principal H., Comp. A. E. 1' $?MW^'' Brd Pnnoipal J., Comp. Jesse 1 wv 1l e11; Soribe E -< «omP- *fae Key. A. C. I T«6 t; Soribe N- Comp. S. Kirkpatrick; 1 i O Zf areri, Com P. 8. Bolton; Principal So- , 1 SR'jW' W.-J. Ford; Second and 1 b«,» Sdjoumers, Comps. Shields and Bai--1 aa} - J*? ltor« Oomp. T. Harris. The whole -N 1 «a«in« ft erß, were iast&} l6i °° the same oe- "-* m k»in!'V c lon 8 ftirt impressive ceremony - 1 Pp| p.TfoFmed by M. E.Coinp. L. Boor, ■ mtul! lil m ÜBual conc»plete manner. After „9 S IDBV f Bli?ht wfreshment, the Odm- ■, «™«»w w»arated at an early hour. -'. '-M to tft«if? aVxaminati6ll P»P«««ntin 4« CJfo'Wfel^ 11 tead,to;flhow;tliat |;ijM . qnwtamon «Qd incre.

dible as might at first be supposed. More than a thousand ladies and gentleman did papers in English literature for a half yearly Kensington looal examination; but a good many of them appear to have been very little illuminated by their studies We learn on the authority of various candidates that Raleigh wrote the " Holy War," and " Jerome " Taylor " The Tatler "; that " Ivanhoe "was the work ef George " Elliott," and that "Paulina" was wrote by Shakespeare. Cowper, it seems, was the author of " The Cottar's Saturday Night," and Shelley of the " Faerie Queen"; while Dickens wrote a number of poems, of which the principal are " Piokwick Papers " and " Jules Verne." One gentleman is under the impression that "Kubla than wrote an Ode to Mont Blano"; another believes that a Stoic is " one who likesagood dinner "; and I a third describes a Poet Laureate as " the poet that lives in the present century." The examiner thinks that these are "amusing blunders," and, in a sense, no donbt they are; but there is something melaacholy about them, showing what a waste of power so called " education " is. These U a corpse in this item. There was nothing particular about it; it was only a plain, ordinary corpse, without trimmings or frills, or apple sauce, or any other expensive foolishness, but the doctor who saw it off kicks up more dust about it than he ever kicked up about a corpse, with all the latest improvements. It was all that' was left of a poor man's wife; the woman and her child started off for the Shadow Land within 48 hour* of each other, and the child was interred in due course. But the doctor, in a seme, kept the remains of the dead woman as security for bis bill, which amounted to £5, and refused to give the necessary certificate or permit the funeral to come off until a satisfactory guarantee was forthcoming. Ultimately, however, this weird and wonderful brapdof unapproachablehnman abasement got his guarantee ; at least he saw a paragraph in the local paper which announced, in effected thatflif an animal eminently fitted to be a hyaena in front and a hog behind would call at the office, leaving s bis feet and his mind outside for fear of demoralising the staff, he would receive a written order oa^ihe cashier" vi pay •£§ to the meanest obje<*jMp ever had a cold bath when is u«<j<3#d J^-|jMTf3 The funeral has since came off.—' Bf&ho£. Bulletin.' -*■■*£■&■

1 Nelson Naval Artillery.. H Battery Artillery .. City Eifles Stoke Rifles WaimeaBiflea .. .. Garrison Band »• . • Staff ... .. ... Hon. Surgeons .. ,. 52 .. 45 .. 36 .. 84 .. 37 .. 15 .. 3 .. 2 -i ■ ii M n • Total .. 224