OUR DEFENDERS

Observer, Volume XI, Issue 706, 9 July 1892, Page 14

OUR DEFENDERS

By Nordenfeldt.

Captain Kohn, of the Guards, will be back from Raratonga in a few ■weeks now. The Mount Eden Eifle Eange has been closed until further orders by Colonel Goring. An artilleryman asks when do the ' A ' Battery people intend electing a second lieutenant ? Ex-Captain Tobin, of the Eoyal Irish Rifles, now figures as a civilian at the Martini Rifle practice. Joe Nutt again put in an appearance on the range last Saturday. He says he is getting tired of shooting. The ' Goldfinch ' men will probably go through their annual course of class firing during their stay in Auckland. The Victoria Eifles selected Sergeant Kearney as tbeir second lieutenant. Mr Kearney is an old volunteer, and iias a happy knack of imparting drill. Mr Steadman, the well-known shot of Whangarei, was in town last week, and availed himself of the opportunity of having some practice at Mt. Eden. ! If a New Zealand team of marksmen is really going across to Australia, it is high time some active steps were taken in Auckland to boom matters. On dit that a certain section of tbe Victoria Rifles acted very shabbily to one or two well-known volunteers who wished to join. Some old members of the corps are so annoyed about it that they talk of resigning in a body. The Ponsonby Navals are still in want of another lieutenant, owing to the resignation of Lieutenant C. C. Dacre. It is not unlikely that one of their P.O.'s will be elected to tbe vacancy. Mr M. McCallum received the following wire from the ' senior member ' on Saturday. ' Defence Minister has instructed Col. Hume to send you all Magazine Rifle Ammunition in stock, about 200 rounds. -J. M. Sheba.' Young Browne was again in good fettle on Saturday last, making top score in the Martini Henry Rifle Club's monthly match. Browne made 64 last competition and is considered a ' dead bird ' for first prize this quarter.

Those who have been in the habit of getting a glass of Hancock's sparkling XXXX ale at the late Pacific Hotel, can now obtain it at Martin's United Service Hotel, next door to the Opera House, corner of Queen and Wellesley-streets. Advertisement appears in another column. A bright fire oan be made in a very few minutes by using Williams' ' XLCR ' fire kindlers. Samples have been distributed throughout the district, and as a natural consequence orders are pouring in daily. A. Graham, Albert- street Works, is the patentee and sole manufacturer. Owing to extensive alterations that are about to be made to their premises, Messrs Court Bros, are now holding slaughtering sales at their ' Beehives ' Queen Street, and Karangahope Road. Bargains, in all lines, are the order of the day. Their advertisement will be found in bur columns. At the Co-operative Butchery, corner of Victoria and Nelson Streets, you. can purchase meat oheaper than anywhere else in town. Hotels, Boarding-houses, and Ships supplied on the shortest notice. Advertisement in this issue. The Cassel Gold Extracting Company are prepared to issue to mine owners, during the next four months, licenses for the. use of Mac Arthur Forrest patent, on reduced ternis. The Cassell Company are also prepared to teßt trial lots of ores, concentrates and tailings, and to report thereon. -They will take immediate proceedings against anyone infringing the Mac Arthur Forrest patents.