OUR VOLUNTEERS.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11730, 4 December 1905, Page 7

OUR VOLUNTEERS.

DEFENCE CADETS.

CAMP ORDERS.

Tho above Volunteer Company will go into camp for its annual week's training in the Rocieation Ground this evening, falling in at the Drill Hall at 7.30 sharp. Each member is requested to bring with him all articles mentioned on special card issued, also plain (civilian) clothes. All baggage to be brought to the Drill Hall, from where the baggage van will convey it to camp. The following special orders have also been added: — That any member introducing any kind of intoxicating liquor, using bad language, or committing any breach of discipline will be at onco expelled from camp. Smoking has also been prohibited. Special orders with regard to the ground will also be issued. The following routine has also been diawn iip: — Reveil'e, 5.45; dress for parade, 6 o'clock; fall in, 6.45; breakfast, 7; guard mounting, 8.30;' first pest, 9; last post, 9.15; lights out, 9.30.

There was only one drunk at the Police Court this morning, the first for several days, and being a first offender he was fined 5s and costs. The exhibition of rough-riding and lassooiiig to be given by Mr Ernest O'Neill, will take place on Wednesday next on the Racecourse, and not on Thursday. Captain Edwin telegraphed as follows at 12.30 p.m.: — Strong winds to gale from between north-east and north and west, glass fall, tides high, sea considerable, jain probable. Mr E. Yarrow to-day consigned one hundred mutton birds to the Rev. Father Afaillard, of Jerusalem, and a similar number to Mr Greenwood at Koriniti, for the foodless natives on the river. Mr G. W. Currie, secretary of the Wanganui Cricket Association, has received a communication from the Cricket Council offering a match against the Melbourne C.C. for early in February, 1906. A special meeting of the Association will be held this afternoon to consider the question. Our readers will doubtless remember the exciting finish between the Melbourne C.C. team (including such players as Trumble, Graham, Mailen, and Ross) and the West Coast team on Cook's Gardens some few years ago. At tho Magistrate's Court this morning W. R. Rutherford (Stock Inspector) charge! Mrs Bridget Scally with selling milk from An unregistered dairy. Mr Marshall appeared for the Stock Department, and stated that it had beau surmised that milk 3old in the vicinity was responsible for a number of typhoid cases. Mr R. L. Stanford. S.M., said that he regarded tho offence as one of the most serious that could be committed, and inflicted a fine on the defendant of .£2O, and coats 9s. Two young men were fined 40s each and costs 7s for Railing for perch in the Westmere Lake, without a license, and an old age pensioner was granted a renewal of her pension.

The funeral of the late Mrs J. Anderson took place on Friday afternoon last the vei'y large attendance testifying the esteem in Avhich ihe deceased lady «was held. A large number of ■wreaths' were sent by sympathisers, including: tokens from the Garrison Band, the Wangamii Rifles, the Highland Rifles, the Guards, the Irish Rifles, the Wanganui Draughts Association, the Wanganui Chess and Draughts Club, the T.Y.M.I. Draughts Club, and the Aram oho Draughts Chib, institutions with which Mr Anderson has been intimately associated. The ceremony at the grave side was impressively 3onducted by Mr R. Tucker. The pallbearers were Messrs R.jind A. V. Anderson and Messrs C. and R. Laird.