The Volunteers will have their annual camp of exercise. It will again be fixed at Stonecutter's Island, and is to be held from the 10th to the 18th of October. The commandant (Major Pemberton) has addressed an appeal to taipans to let their employees off as much as possible. Tt is to be feared that this exercise will excite little attention and unless it has more practical results than the drill last year it would be better to discontinue the camp. Instead of gain; in for plenty of drill the Volunteers treat it as a prolonged picnic, and few were the better in either health' or pocket for the mess festivities, which included a large consumption of malt.
'THE NEWBALMORAL GOLD MINING CE; Another phase in the history of this non-eductive gold company has been reached. rhe old company has come and gone, and the new company has made its second call without showing any prospect of a dividend. On the Ist inst., at an extraordin ary meeting of the shareholders, the general management of the company was transferred from Mr. Geo. R. Stovens to Messrs, J.D. Humphreys and Son, The remmuneration to the General Managers has been fixed. at 5 per cent commission on the gold won and the sum of $3,600 per annum, such sum to include office expenses and salaries of clerks, ete. A confirmatory meeting will have to be held.
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