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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 200, 18 May 1908, Page 8

Promotion from tho ranks r3U never supply moro than'a very few The-majority must 'come from; the wcatfhy. and leisured classes. Tho soldier will frllow to the i doatli tho officer between whom'' 1 and _ himself there ■exists tho nameless bonil (nat binds tltem. Ho does not wish to see offiicrs brought into the Army from any other (iass than that which has hitherto supplied;tiem.—Army and Navy Gazette." -.J Y v The' average - kind jbf man appears never to have thought, abtat; anything at all—except- tho respective-merits of. cricket" aiid football play-ors. is true that as soon as a question bccorn-.s "a matter of practical 1 politics," most -finglishrceai 'fed -bound':to have an opinion!; about it. But that opinion is seldom the/outcomo of individual reflection.—" Now Age." - .' An annua)/conference of the/Wellington .Provincial Branch of the, Now Zealand Farmers' IJnion'frill bo. held at Feildin'g-on Tuesday of ne<t week, beginning- at 10.30 a.m. The questions to ho considered cover important,; ground, and embrace -the'.follow, mg:—Ltnd laws, labour laws, parliamentary representation, future legislation, land valuation and taxation, drainage, and fencing-lav,-s as affecting private and Government landfj -road subsidies, hospital-finance, North Island Agricultural College, niotor-car speed, slietip trucks, cheap fares for visits to experiment farmfe, the formation c-f a .land agency branch of tho Unfin, clc. ■ Entries for' tho practical examination of .Trinity Collego of • Music, Lonuon; «>u«u .it Begg's, as advertised olsowliere, on Wednesday noxti To facilitate the secretary's wors; toachers and candidates are requosted not V leavo their entries until tho last day, as tha mail leaves on Friday.