LORD WOLSELEY AND THE VOLUNTEERS.
SrEAKis'o at a meeting of volunteers, lately Lord Wolaeley said that when he thought of that volunteer force which now so many years ago was Bot on foot, he believed that if any member of the army had been told at the commencement that at this time such a battalion as he had seen that night, so well set up and imbued with such military spirit, would be created from it, he would have regarded the person who told him so as a fool or madman. It was said wo were not a military nation, and we were not, if judged by the number of troops wo had enrolled. But nation, we were the most warlike". -No nation was so frequently at War, and wo should be prepared ; but beyond this, there was he believed a war impending with which our army would not be able to cope. Therefore, it was a fortunate thing that the country had this great volunteer force, which had gone on increasing year by year, till this year it; was stronger than ever. There were at the present moment, by the returns in the War Office, over 2000 more efficient men than ever before in the volunteer force.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 6936, 9 February 1884, Page 2 (Supplement)
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