SERVICE NOTES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 27, 1 February 1908, Page 14

SERVICE NOTES.

(By "Scout.") -

The Electric Light Volunteer Compaq-, recently formed in succession to tho disbanded corps of Submarine Miner?, is be- , coming well established, and there is a ! thoroughness characterising ths initial phases of its work that augurs well for the company's future. At the parade last Wednesday the men were inspected toy Iyieut. -Colonel Campbell, officci commanding the division, who expressed himself well pleased with the progresb the men were making. In selecting the eight men who represent the City Rifles at the annual championship meeting, the Wellington City Rifles adopt the sensible course of choosing mop upon their shooting m all company trophy matches for the season. Considerable interest^ attaches to this aggregate as the season progresses, and it is watched by many shooting men outside the corps specially affected. Ono moro match is to be fired to complete the aggregate, which at present stands as follows:—Pvt. Feasey 365, Pvt. A. J. Jackson 349, Pvt. Jackson, senior, 346, Pvt. Wesfwood 344, Pvt. Lang 339, Cpl. Jackson 323, Pvt. Given, 321, Sgt. Homer 306, Pvt. Wiren 305, Pvt. Rankin 305, Col.Sergt.' Davis 299, Pvt. Turner 298, Cpl. Chandler 298. The Tempr. publishes an anonymous letter concerning the policy of French national defence that is bound to be long remembered in foreign chancelleries, although it is entirely uncertain what effect il will have at home. It is nothing much more than a. comparison botwoon the provisions for tho national defence in Franco and the state of affairs in half a dozen other countries, but the arrangement of the data shows quite as clearly <>c tho brief but strongly worded nolo at tho end what moral the writer draws from theso comparisons. n? believes that tho policy cf the French Government is altogether wrong ; he believps that when other countries aro arming France is disarming; that the policy of the Government has from one of imprudence gravitated. Lo ana of r.nuainxht.v.