THE TERRITORIALS.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13745, 7 April 1915, Page 3

THE TERRITORIALS.

OAMP AT TAPAWERA

The weather continues fine, ami the health of the Territorials in cjunp at Tapawera is excellent. The food is entirely satisfactory. The church tents were filled to their utmost, on Easter Sunday. Th'-rc were hundreds of visitors to ■the camp on Monday. Every other evening concerts, with capital programmes, are held in the C.K. >LS. tent. " A huge bonfi.ro' concert was given on Mondny rti^ht,- vmder the direction of the Rpv. Kothwell I-lawman. A r.timber of men from B Company have formed a. oee club under the name of "The Candy Kids," and every evening their voices ate heard around the camp They- are collecting for the Belgian llelief Fund. A football match was played on East<;>: Monday, when, after a" very keen game, B Company defeated A Company by 17 points to nil ■ The camp sports will be iield on Friday next. ' the men have had trench digging and skirmishing work during the last fewdays, and general leave was granted from :1 p.m. on Monday. On Wednesday the men will be en-

gaged in squad drill, a protection scheme, and general battalion work; on-Thursday battalion and squad drill, with a lecture to N,C.O.'s in th« evening; on Friday the carrying out of a tactical scheme will occupy the day; on Saturday the men "wiu leave for home. . The following camp orders have been issued by Lieuteaanfc-Colone! Bryant • The following promotions wi'lj date •from March 29th, 191 i:— A Company: Sergeant-Major Fawcett to be acting regimental sergeant-m;ijor in cai:ip; Sergeant Johnson to bo act-ing-company sergeant-major in camp;! Sergeant G. Ricketts T;o be quavterj master-sergeant; Corporal M Giblin to be'sergeant; Acting-Sergeant McMurtrj to be sergeant; Corporal F. W. xidamson to be regimental orderly room sprge.tnt; Corporals Wilkes and'M. R. Ching to be sergeants; Corporal Brookor to be acting-sergeant; Private Vickorman to be sergeant; Privates Ander.son, Morley, Harley, Snowden", and Moore to be corporals. B Company: Sergeant W. F. Starnes to be C.S.M. ;-Corporal- Blizzard to be Q.M.S.: Corporals R. McGlashan, A. Higgms, and It.. King to be acting- , sergeants; Lance-corporal N. Adamson jand Privates F..Teece, A. I. Fawcett, |H. Fawcett, and S. Hannen to be act-ing-corporals: Bugler James to be corpora] bugler. 9 C Company: Sergeant M. V. Wilton to be C.S.M.; Corporal J. G. Johnston to be 'Q.M.S.; Corporal Russell to be. [ acting-sergeant; Lance-Corporal Freeth 'to be corporal; Privates. J. G. Pritchard, C. D. Matfcl-ews, P. J. Young, R. ;Bootb E. W. Gebbnes, G. Aspinall, A: 'W. Kostne, and G. 1... Godsiff, and Lance-Corporal Johnston to be actingicorporals;'Privates F A. Hugh&s, J. C. H. Godsiff, C. T. Flood, and R. Macelield to be lance-corporals ; Private jJ. Lindsay to be bugler. D Company: Sergeant H. E. Patchett to be C.S.M.; Corporals A. O. Hammond, Bell, A. Gunn, J. Thomson, A. : Jordan, and P. A. Edinger to be actt ing-sergeants; Privates E. W. PatchI ett, A. Morrison, F. Brydon, A. J. ■Avery. H. L. Lord, Richmond, and Scarlett to be corporals.

The Mounted Infantry will go into ■camp" at Tapawera on the 10th insfc. (not the 12th, as. previously stated). It is expected that about 120 men will atteno. Tho camp of the Field Artillery begins on the 12tli inst., and will be attended by about 10tf men.

Operations in no fewer than 58 countries are carried out by the Salvation Army. ' Th© total strength of the army in India exceeds 350,000 men. and •costs about 19J- millions annually. , » - : "LADIES" --Why is the delicious "MILITARY I*>OKLE" the most tasty condiment on the market? Buy a bottle to-day and supply the answer. The German ppies are splendid, butGerman statesmen are about the silliest crowd I ever heard of. —Sir George Reid.

India contains at least 29 cities with populations exceeding 100,000.

We may have days of depression, and even of reverses, before us in the future, but we need feel no< doubt regarding the ultimate triumph of right over might, and civilisation over might, and civilisation over mediaeval barbar-ism.—-Lord Hardinge.

FOR SALE OR LEASE BY TENDER. IpUEEHOM) PROPERTY containing -*- 8-11 Acres n«d 39 Perches, being Section 1, Block XIII.. and Section ]3, Block XIV., Motupiko Sun-ey District, i situate at Nsrtli End of Lake Hotoiti. | ! FREEHOLD PROPERTY, containing 500 Acres, in Motupiko Survey District, -situate at the South End of Lake Rotoiti. . * TENDERS will be received either for SALE or for a LEASE of the above two i Properties, either separately or together. Tenders are to be delivered to I the undersigned on or before the 20th [APRIL, 1915. Further Particulars concerning ;tlve above and of the Conditions of Sale or Lease can be obtained from the.undersigned. ADAMS ■& HARLEY, Solicitors,. 1250 Nelson.