CANTERBURY YEOMANRY CAVALRY.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5687, 5 October 1896, Page 2

CANTERBURY YEOMANRY CAVALRY.

ANNUAL TRAINING. Dismally cold and wet weather attended the inception o£ the annual training of the C.V.C. for 1896. About : .forty-five men, under Captain Lindsay and Lieutenant*Archer and Rhodes, went into camp on Saturday. The northern and Christchurch contingents arrived during the afternoon. The southern men came up by the 7 p.m. 'train. .Lieutenant Archer, acted, as officer for the day, with Sergeant Lewin as orderly-sergeant, and Lance-Corporal Rhodes as corporal of the guard. The horses are a good lot, about up . to the usual average of this corps, but at present many of them look somewhat rough, owing, doubtless, to the weather. There is a hospital tent in charga of SurgeonMajor Irving, and a very complete and well-horsed ambulance van. Mr P. Burke is, as usual, in charge of the canteen and mess-room, both of which are very comfortably fitted up. The mess-room is tastefully draped with flags, and on the walls are large-sized portraits of the late Colonel Lean, Lieutenant Chapman and Surgeon Chapman, and also of oxCaptain Wright and Captain Dunda6, besides one or two pictures illustrating incidents of tlie Zula war. The cooking is done by gas in a room which adjoins the mess-room, and which presents a specially clean and tidy appearance. Orders were read on Saturday night, and a mounted parade ordered for Sunday morning, but this order had to be cancelled owing to the weather,. .The. new- MartiniHenry cirbines were issued to the _aei■yesterday morning.' . Captain Lindsay has made- ttie 'following promotions' as from Oct. 3:—S ergeant Levyin to be quarter-master-sergeant, Corporals Parkinson and Horrell to be sergeants, Lance- Corporal Rhodes to be corporal, Trooper Chapman to be lance-corporal. The orders for today are as under : — Officer for" the diiy. Lieutenant Archer ; orderly - sergeant, Sergeant Buckley; corporal of guard, Lance-Corporal White. Six men on guard duty. Reveille 5.30 a.m., dismounted parade 6.15 a.m., stables and feed 7.45 a.m.. breakfast 8 a.m., guard mounting 9.15 a.m., boot and saddle 9.45 a.m., parade drillorder 10 a.m., stables and feed 12.30, lunch 1 p.m., boot and saddle 2.30 p.m., parade drill-order 2.45 p.m., evening stables 5.45 p.m., dinner 6.30 p.m., first post 10 p.m., last post 10.30 p.m., lights out 11 p.m. The work will bo under the direction of Captain Coleman, Government instructor of mounted corps, who arrived from Wellington on Saturday.