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RETURN OF MILITIA.
Nil.
HONGKONG VOLUNTEER CORPS.
The Hongkong Volunteers, Artillery and Rifle Corps, originally incorporated by Sir HERCULES ROBINSON under Ordinance 2 of 1862 was disbanded by Sir RICHARD MACDONNELL in 1866, but revived and re-organized by Governor PorE IIENNESSY in 1877. It was again disbanded in 1892, and re-organized in the same year by the Hon. W. H. MARSH, C.M.G., (now Sir WILLIAM MARSH, K.C.M.G.,) the Officer Administering the Government,
under Ordinance 18 of 1882.
It now consists solely of an Artillery Corps: there are 50 Honorary Members and 60 (exclusive of officers) Effective Members. The latter pass through a course of Garrison and Mountain Gun Drills, as well as Martini- Henry Carbine Drills. The Corps passes through a good many finçtuations owing to the changes that take placo, as many residents come and go. During the past three mouths 22 recruits have joined to re-place those who Ive left the Colony; of these somo liave served as Volunteers in England.
The business hours being from 9 or 10 am. until á r.v., Drills can only be carried on before and after those hours. Then only sufficient men can be assembled for one or two gun detachments, excopt on Public Holidays as Chinn New Year, when the Annual Artillery Practice takes place. However, sufficient instruction can be given to make the Corps a valuable Auxiliary in the event of War. The Officers of the Corps are as follows :-
ACTING COMMANDANT—
Surgeon-
Capt. J. McCALLUM.
JAMES CANTLIE, M.B.
LIEUTENANTS—
H. J. HOLMES.
II. E. DENSON.
Capt. H. T. HAWKINS, R.A., Adjutant.
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