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RETURN OF MILITIA.
Nil.
HONGKONG VOLUNTEER CORPS.
The Corps as it existed until 1893 consisted solely of an Artillery Corps. It was not made subject to tho Army Act, and consequently was not held to be in a military sense a reliable force in the event of war.
In 1893 the forec was disbanded by the Government and a new Volunteer Corps was formo under Ordinanco No. 6 of 1893, which placed the Corps under the supervision of the military antliorities as in England, and made it subject to the Army Act to the same extent as the Volunteer Forec iu England.
The establishment of the Corps has been fixed as follows:—
1 Battery of Light Field Artillery, and
3 Machine Gun Companies:
with a Staff of 1 Commandant, 1 Adjutant, 2 Medical Officers, and 1 Quarter-Master Sergeaut.
The staff is complete, and the Field Battery and 1 Machine Gun Company havo already been formed, numbering respectively 116 and 58. The Field Battery has, in addition, 4 Signallers and 1 Trumpeter
"4 (uneurolled boys) attached.
The Officers of the Corps are as follows :—
STAFF.
HONORARY COLONEL:
COMMANDANT—
SIR WILLIAM ROBINSON, G.Ç.M.G.
FIELD BATTERY—
Captain A. CHAPMAN.
Major Sir J. W. CARRINGTON, Kt., C.M.G.
ÁDJUTANT-
Captain T. A. C. GORDON, R.A.
MEDICAL OFFICERS-
Captain J. A. LOWSON, M.B,
Lieut. F. O. STEDMAN, M.D.
QUARTER-MASTER SERGEANT--
Quarter-Master Sergt. G. W. WATLING,
Lient. W. MACHELL.
D. MacDONALD.
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M. W. SLADE.
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A. II. LEE-NORMAN, (Supernu- [morary).
"A" MacuINE GUN COMPANY--
Captain E. D. SANDERS.
Lieut. F. MAITLAND.
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G. C. FULLERTON,