On Saturday afternoon all the branches of the Volunteer Corps turned out for inspection by Major Knollys, the officer deputed to make the inspection by the Gen I commanding the forces in He the. request of th are avai has just been Municipal Council, generally
called out for a month's severe train "Major Holliday and th. itiofficient condition into which it had fallen. The result has, on the whole, been. very gratifying; the men have for the most evidently responded heartily to the Major exhortations at the last mooting of the Corps, and have kept the promise which they made when agreeing to the plan of calling out the Force for periodical terms of hard training, that they would attend rill regularly. Although the inspecting officer was able, naturally, to point out many details in which the Ca able of itaprovement, we belie Sxpression of opinion that it waa a valuable cient body was no mero empty comiment. Every branch of the Corps, the i so, the Artillery and the Rifle tainly appeared to go through their evolutions with a degree of steadiness and-accuracy such as las not been soon in the-Force for many years past; and though Major Holliday at the conclu of the day's proceedings did wot express himself with unqualified satisfaction, we k he has every reason to congratulate on: the results he has achieved by this remarkable skill and energy which he has devoted to the task of rendering the Force offici
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