VOLUNTEER NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 183, 5 August 1903, Page 2

VOLUNTEER NEWS.

I "Volunteers throughout laranaki will be glad to learn that Genenl Bibing ton will at last visit the district and inspect the Taranaki Volunteers. 1 'lhe oeremony of unveiling the memorial in Sr. Mary's Churchyard to Taranaki troopers who fell in South Africa has been fixed for the 27th inst. General Babingtoj will arrive on the 2(1 th inst-., and will inspect the Taranaki Hides and Guards on that date. On Thursday morning he will inspeot the Inglewood Division of the Hawera M 'tinted Rifles, the Egrasnt Mounted Rifles, and the Waitara and Inglewood ' Rifles in town, and in the afternoon the unveiling will take place. ! A parade of the Rifles and Guards ■ was held last night (Tuesday). There J was a fair attendanoe of the Rifles I under Lieut. Okey and a capital muster of the Guards under Oiptain Oook and Lieut, Messenger, Lieutenant Holmes being also on parade, i Lieut.-Oolonel Ellis, commanding the I Taranaki Battalion, with his staff - Major Okey, Captain-Adjutant Taunj ton, Oapt un-Quartermaster Cock, and i St.fi 1 Sergt.-M .jor Saunderson, arrived just before 8 o'clock, aad by command of Colonel Webb, officer commanding i the district, the following general j orders were read by O:ipfc;iio-Adjutans !Taunton; Sew Zulaud Volunteers, ! 4ih Welling' n (Turaoaki) Battalion, :I.oa Wednesday, 26th Augnst, the Taranaki R flee, Tawnaki Guards, and Battalion Band, will parade at the Drill Hall at 7.30 p.m. foriDspaotion by General Bibington, the general commanding rfficer of the New Zaaland Forces. Section 52 of the New Zealand Defence Act will be strictly onforcd. Company parades for the 24th and 25th August can be cancelled if wished by the officers commanding th-j 2. The Stratford Mounted Riflas, Mounted Rifles, Taranaki Rifl s and Guards, Inglewood Rifles, Stra'ford Rifles, Waitara Rifles, and Bittalion Bind, will parade at 2 p.m. on the 27t!> August, at the Drill Hall, New Plymouth, fir tho purpose of taking pit:, in (he uuveilug of the m>m -ri-l to Taranaki Troopers wh:> lost their livt s in South Africa. Full dress uniform. The Public School Oad'-ts are to be inviud to take pirt in this puade, and we hope ihe invitation will be extended to the Stratford Cadet Corps (* very fine one), and in fact to all the Oadat Corps that are unitormsd, as it would be a goo 1 opportunity f jr the new formed Oidet Battalion to mee', and give additional interest to an event which must have the hearty sympathy of everyone in Taranaki. Colonel B lis informs us that he is arranging for free passes for volunteers on the railway. At the Rifles parade last night Colorel Ellis preßeit'd to L : eu l enant Okey, oi bohalf tf the Oimptny, the Rifle Uuion shield, which wag won by: he Rifles. After general orders hadj been read the Rifles were exercised in che Drill Hall and then went for outdoor exercise. The Guards marched out and put in some good work, after which tbey relurtel to the Drill Hall vihm "Captain Cook crmplimented the company on the good work done and (hanked.

the man for turning out in such strength. It was, he seid, v>ry odcouraging to the officers, who were proud of the compiny, Captain Cook askod them to do their best in view of the visit of General B ibington, as he was sure they would.