EASTER ENCAMPMENT.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 289, 23 April 1889, Page 3

EASTER ENCAMPMENT.

THE HUSSARS IN THE FIELD. Recent events have brought the East Coast Hussars into prominent notice, and their encampment this Easter naturally has an interest attached to it beyond that in which encampments ate generally regarded, What changes there have been since last Easter I The J Battery was then flourishing, and promised to hold out permanently. Where is it now ?—only in memory, It is not so long since that it was one of the beat artillery eorps in ths colony, but since Captain Winter severed his connection with it, it gradually declined until it is now defunct. But the leading event in military circles has been the Te Root! expedition, Happily the affair did not lead to any very serious results, bat it

gave an opportunity for proving much that is highly creditable to the Hussars. It proved that when tbe occasion does arise, the Hussars are not “ behind in coming forward,” The troop left town on Thursday night, the camp this year being pitched at Mr G. L. Sunderland’s place, at Patutahi. The camp life has been very quiet, but it has included s lot ot good military training. On Bunday a church parade was held, when the Hussars came into town, and (headed by the Garrison Band) marohed to Holy Trinity Church in fall dress uniform, in which, it is needless to say, the men presented an imposing spectacle. In tbe afternoon the rain came down heavily, and when the camp was reached again it presented anything but a cheerful appearance. On Saturday night the tent in charge of Corporal Johnston caught fire. Those who had been occupying it left it to visit another tent, and when the alarm was given it was found that the blankets had been burnt. The aatnp will be broken up thin afternoon.