For their march-out on Saturday' last, the Volunteers, hitherto doomed to disap-ointment by the relentless wiles of Jupiter lucius, were favoured with charming weather, a measure of grace that went far to compensate for previous ill-luck, The parade was called for half-past two, and about that hour some thirty members of Nos. 1 and 2 Companies respectively, teen Artillerymon, and a like number of Rangers, assembled in the Police Compound. These figures do not include the Officers and non-commissioned officers, of whom there was a full complement. The Rangers were under the command of Captain Keswick, the Artillery under Gaptain Dallas, who also had charge of the ambulance; No. 1 Company under Contain Mackenzie, and No. 2 company under Captain Harvie.
Major Holliday was in command of the whole, and had as aide-de-camp, Mr. Fabris, of the Artillery. At 3 p.m., the column, headed by the Rangers and Artillery with two guns, and the Town Band, left the Police Compound and proceeded along the Bund. From the balcony in front of Messrs, Jardine, Matheson & Co.'s hong, His Majesty King Kalakaua saw the Volunteers march sed. Along the Broadway, Hongkew, captain Harvie put the infantry' through some evolutions for increasing the front of companies when on the march. As soon as the column reached Messrs. Birt's Wharf, a temporary halt was made, during which the ambulance was brought up, and No. 1 Company was extended in' half-companies across the road, the right half serving as the attacking' lino, the left half as support, and the Artillery reserve. Here, too, the Rangers sought a suitable drill ground on the grass flats beside the river. For some distance the advance was continued in the above order, the attacking line keeping up a steady fire and being reinforced by the support. The guns of the Artillery were also brought to bear on the imaginary foe, and then No. 2 Company relieved No. 1. The ambulance bearers, with stretchers, and with their arms slung to the back, were to be en passing up and down the column, and carrying to the rear the assumedly wounded men. Just before reaching the Camp, the firing ceased, and in front of the Camp the Rangers, Artillery, and infantry were Grawn up at open order, and received His Majesty King Kalakaua with a royal salute, the first ever given by the Shanghai Volunteers toa Kingin person. His Majesty, seated in the carriage placed at his disposal. by Chief Justice French, was accompanied by Gol. Judd, and he gracefully acknowledged the salute by raising his hat. The infantry piled arms, and the whole broke off and took advantage of the refreshments provided by the Municipal Council, and duly brought thither by a commissariat waggon requisitioned for the occasion. His Majesty, struck doubtless by that one touch of nature that maketh the whole world kin, also shared the hospitality of the commissariat department, After half an hour's rest, the column again "fell in" and commenced the return march by the same route. Opposite the Custom House, the Rangers and Artillery halted, and the infantry was drawn up in quarter column facing them, Major Commandant Holliday, addressing the Corps, said that Hongkew had been selected as the scone of operations to show how unsuitable the locality was for such manceuvres, and besides, there could be little doubt that the Volunteers would be anything but welcome to the residents there at nighttime during the summer. He added that next Saturday there would be another field-day on the Race Course, when ho would be in command for the Inst time, and which would terminate in what woul be, ho regretted to say, his last march passed, The Rangers and Artillery then proceeded to the Municipal Compound. To the infantry Major Holliday special addressed a few words, intimating that it was very desirable that the men should be avided with an undress cap and leggings, he most suitable were those in uso amon, the Volunteers and Regulars at Home, an if, after consultation among the members of the Companies, it was decided to adopt his suggestion, he would, when he arrived Home, be pleased to arrange with the regimental out-fitter (Messrs. Sayle & Ca.) for an adequate supply of these articles at a reasonable rate. In the meantime, a glengarry of the pattern he, suggested would be found in the Orderly Room. As it was probable that both the glengarry and leggings would be conveniently used at times for other than military purposes, ho thought they could hardly ask the Council to supply them, Both articles, he presumed, could be obtained for a trifling sum—say, a dollar and a half. In view of the weather that it is the proverbial mi: to contend against, the advantage resulting from the provision of leggings, is, as we pointed out in our notice of the Inst Naval and Volunteer field-day, one that cannot be over-estimated, while the undress cap will often be more convenient—at the night parades, for instanco—than the heavy helmet.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.