VOLUNTEER NOTES.
An effort is being made to form a new moußted corps &t Eltham. , Thorn was a startling occurrence u* the parade or th« E'tham Rifles in the Town Hall on Tuesday evening (giys the Haw«ra Star). During bayonet ex«rcis<» ooe of the men, in " chart's" swords," put his bayonet through a large Rochester lamp banging from the coring, and, peculiarly, took it on the bayonet point clean cut of its fittinpn. The oil ran on to the floor, and the volunteer, with g<-eat presence of mind, droppod the l'ghted lamp into th* pool of kerosene, which promptly flared up A large number of the corps showed their braver/ in the fdee of danger by leaving the hall at the "double." However, a fe# galbnt ones smothered tha fhmes and drill was resumed,
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 158, 26 July 1901, Page 2
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