Lam Friday afternoon saw the resumption of the periodical i sections of the Police Force after time of discontinuance. Mr. E. Pearce and Mr. J. Johnstone spected the men on the Race Course, some nine hundred men being present on parade under the Captain Superintendent, Mr. Mo-Euen.
All the different units were represented as follows:—nineteen Sikh troopers, under Inspector Spottiswood, sixty-three foreign constables and sergeants, under Inspector Dewing, two hundred and twelve Sikh sergeants and constables under Capt. Barrett and six hundred and sixteen Chinese constables under Chief Inspector Wilson, totalling in all 919 men.
The function was all the more interesting by reason of the excel-Jent manner in which the men went through their drill and the Sikhs their maneuvres. The latter with the mounted police marched past a saluting base, where Mr. B. O. Pearce took the salute, the two bodies of men going through the manure in manner which re-fleets considerable credit upon their
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