CANTERBURY YEOMANRY CAVALRY

Timaru Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 2818, 4 October 1883, Page 3

CANTERBURY YEOMANRY CAVALRY

This corps will assemble for its annual training on Monday next. The detachmenta north of the Rangitatn. will arrive by tha last train on Saturday, and some of them will have a pretty long day of it, the Methven men having to march at least twenty-five miles to catch their train, while those from

Leeston will have a march of over thirty miles Tbe remainder of the corps will come into Timsru by road, and it is expected lhat the. Hut man will havo reported hitnielf by ten o'clock on Sunday night. Sunday's work will be restricted to exeroiae m watering order. Real business will commence on Monday morning, probably by 6.30 o'clock, and we believe throughout the week there will bo no leu than three drills a day, so it is evident the Cavalry mean to go m for hard work, and not merely a week's outing. They will be bilMted m different hotels m the town, the Ship boing the head-quarters ; Messrs Maclean and Stewart's auction room being utilised as a mess room. The corps will bo undor the command of Captain A. W. Wright, Mr Dundss, Instructor of Cavalry for the South Island, performing tho duties of Adjutant. Burgeon Chapman of Lee»ton will oho be present. Major Slater, lately commanding the corps, is aleo expected, and Captain Gardner, with perhaps some other officers of the Southland and Dunedin Huanuv, will be located at the Grosvonor. Owing to the restrictions placed by Government on tho strength of Cavalry Corps (63 of all ranks being tha maximum allowed), the number attending this year's training cannot, of course, come up to that of previous years when the present regulations wore not m foroe. The inspection by Lieut.-Col. Lean, Commandant of the District, will take place on Friday, 12th inst., and tho corps will bo dismissed on the following day.