The Minutes of last Meeting are rend, confirmed, signed by the Chairman, and passed for publication, itted, \iry accounts are signed. Inspector reports that during April the markets and butchers' shops were visited daily, and always found well supplied wi and wholesome articles of fool. killed to apply the foreign market during the month has beer 1,146. calves 171 create-shops for native eoneumpt 20, water buffaloes 24, pavies kept at is w further incre carriages plying for h licensed for May st 193 last month, and 159 for May 1885.
xd Foreshore.—Letters from the owners of Bund Lota are submitted, intimating that they hay Proposed Alteration in Names of Roads.—The following letter is ordered to published Shanghai, Gth May, 1886, Sir,—Owing to the const; to which new camera at this settlement are exposed through the ry in vame of the two roads called "Upper Yuen Ming Yuen Road" and " Lower Yuen Ming Yue
refer to a suggestion lately made by a visitor Road " respectively, the undersigned beg to im one of the local papers, and to submit to the consideration of the Council the changing of the name Upper Yuen Ming Yuen Road, previously acquired, highly creditable and indicative of a very superior intelligence on the part of the mei would be as well if rapidity of moves ment and formation were studied a little more, and the companies taught to got into their places with precision without too much time being lost in dressing. I attended most of the partes during my stay at Shanghai, and observed with much pleasure the suldierlike and efficient manner in which drill instruction was imparted by Major Holliday, who apvara to have taken very great paiuy in aquatic Fying himeelf for the evunuand. T have not met many smarter Commanding Officers of Volunteers than Mxjor Holliday, The few Officers I was able to call out for Infantry drill acquit themselves well, the markers knew their places better thin expected, Adjutant Hough handled the Mounted Horse very creditably.
Altogether the Corps compares favorably with most Volunteer Corpe in Eugland—specially as regards musketry, every man being put through a certain course of el firing, though the standard in thie should be somewhat higher, and a approach to the class firing required of a emit in the Regalar Forces, before he is con. idered ® trained s But, as stated in my address, in must not be forgotten that drill is merely the instrument by meanu of which we inculcate cipline in the Lollies of men to move in military order with t ary precision.
then to be applied, and this can only "Close Order" by the instructions, General Rule Page 105, Field Exercise, 1884, and in Ex: tended Order" by such practices as directed at page 53 for squads of Recruits preparatory to subsequent practice with larger bodies of trained men, as described afterwards at Pa in stated that the company exer-forcer) there referred to ai "the only 18 by which Officers and m can become efficient in readily adapting drill instructions, especially those of Extended Order," to the varying conditions of field It is also absolutely essential the Volunteers should be practised in rapid Volley and Indopendeut Firing (both at the longer distances and with fixed sighta: at short-dis-;
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