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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1440, 5 October 1899, Page 54

Colour-S»rgeaata A. Cheater, F. Farthma;, and H. Taylor, and Sergeants W. Hoar, W. Knee, W. Sanderson, and H. Peacock, engaged by the Government in r3n2;land to net a.% drill-irsstructors to the volunteers* throughout the colony, are passengers by the new steamer Kumar'a, ' which l eft Plymouth for Wellington via Capetown anci ■ TTobart on the 2nd in.fc. " =;..- A very, timely appear to Imperialistic ■ • K-3jiti.!rien.t is ;msde : in-.a new patriotic :■•; 'rsoiig. "Sons of the'Empire/' of which a ; v copy,'baa just-reached us-; The authors of • words a.ud music—Mr W. Belworthy and ■ -,.Mr- T : : . JI. Phillpot*" respectively—are resid?>ita,'df. Auckland-, and the result of their -' .• 'poiuaho.fafeip'n-' is - a spirited:.. production : • ivw-sesaiag" many Of -the- -elements that .. j:c >-ke'for por.uLa-rifey. i The-sentiment, lias a bold ~-. -iata.;. the. allusions' to lion, .bear and eagle, ' 'wifan a. Fair ad^i^u're-: of'- -f'biood," stanip it. as bellicose; while the references to . -\Hq-m ? e-arid "Ze-alandia's Southern. Gross".; .;soecialiy'/appeal'jto colonial patriotism. The music' is original and appropriate, yet. devoid of The -key is, B ■ fla t, '. the. range from. B below the "stave to D, and the -accompaniment is "easy/ yet effective. ,-.- The refrain'.;'' commencing "For we're sous of the Empire and united we : wiib stand," goes with an admirable ; : - : .switi2:. ! aud'if;.«S'ung- in chorus would have ■a. stirring effect.. "Sons of the Empire" Km ].,■•''• :• '•< '-.J bv iveith Prowse and C-i.,, of"L'-'v.do-iy cn-d copyrighted In all co ;>'a tries. ■■-.. i ;/i-: ;