Volunteering.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1891, 20 October 1886, Page 3

Volunteering.

Tlm 'Qiqrtowa Rifle Volunteers have been **®ed into squads. ARC and D, under the non-commissioned officers. 6 and E squads have been drawn to shoot a tonrns* »ent on Saturday next. B and D squads *re arranged as follows B—Seigeaut Good*ug. Corporal Moors, Vols Gooding, Gronbe, ■jail, juu., Johnston, Bugler Hobman, Vole Varnham, Tocker and Lundqvist. D Squad, Bwgsant Humphries, Corporal HawVe, Vole J B Hobman, Higgins (2), J W Hawke, T. Jnglsy, May, Phillips and Boydhonse. A and C squads will fire on the following Saturday, if no subsequent arrangements are made. All members who do not roll up to compete in (these matches will forfeit their allowance of ammunition. The range distances will be 3, 3, and 500 yds, five shots at each distance, any military position. Oreytowo, last night, to an extent, presea. ted the appearance of a garrison town. In the Town Hall there were nearly seventy citizen soldiers on parade. Major Bunny inspected the men, who consisted of two companies- No 1, the Greytown Company, under Captain Cameron ; No 3, Papawai, under Captain Jury. After the companies were formed into line for inspection Captain Jury 'placed his men under the charge of Captain Cameron, with a request that they abonld obey all that officer’s commands. After the inspection the volunteers were marched out, ultimately Halting at Fabian’s new Club Hotel, where the proprietor, who that night had been elected an honorary mem* her, appropriately celebrated thejjevent by entertaining in a liberal manner bis new comrade*. After doingjnstiee te Ur Fabian’s hospitality the volunteers were marched back to their headquarters and nominations were reeeived for the vacant lieutenancy in the Greytown Biflea. Messrs F. F. Uazton and James Baiilie were nominated and the election takes place on the next inspection night. Uin the meantime there ate any other can. didatos their nominations can be sent to Captain Cameron. The monthly parade of the Greytown School Cadets took place yeeterday when Sergsaat-Major Bexar put them through the usual evolution*. Captain Forritt and Lieut Cex may be congratulated upon the pros fieiency manifested, and Major Bunny did not fail to speak in warm terms of it, stating also that the lads as a whole were fit to pass for their capitation fee. Fifty.three were present.

A nutob between the MUterton and Carteßon Volunteers came off at the butte on Saturday, aad molted in a win for the for®er by four points —one of the most closely 80,1 tested matches that has been fired for a long time-