THE GOVERNMENT AND NEW VOLUNTEER CORPS.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4084, 23 June 1900, Page 5

THE GOVERNMENT AND NEW VOLUNTEER CORPS.

1' (,'lh.",ilig Upon the rill oiling of contingent.'-; for : ciwUn jo .South Africa, there has been nil O'.'lT the colony !l great revival of tlit; volunteering spirit. At fvj :is( crl oh, Cart crinii. Paliiatim and oilier lowa-, in the Wain-rap::. I here appear:, to 1)C y desire on Ihe ino’l r.l a considerable p'lHh-n oi till; m,lie l)o))lll,iti'.iii (hat they .Humid In; allowed to •onu infantry as well a; niorun -■-( volunteer companies, anil Mr Hogg In:,, g:,eu notice to ask the iMnii.of I Viciio; if Hie services of ; urli -corps will lie ace -oU'd. Tin: llicinhrr for ,'bi: lertnn U alto inquiring wbe(hcr mounted I'urtj;; have offered their MTi'i'S 1 •• at .Ma. trrlrai and Ekelahnna, ami if o. why have Hu-v it'd, hecn aiw|/Iml f The Government has accepted the service: ol mounted euros at, I’ahialna ami i-aifie of Urn Wairarajia town-;, hill idler; lo raise such enrp;; at A 3 asi ctl on and Flint alnma ha ve heen di dined, and (hire who proposed lo enrol themselves are anxious to know why they should he, (i eal ed differently to their fellows in oilier pari,-; of the disl riel, hi all probability I lie reason will prove f.o ben very simple one. Asa. mailer of fact, Hie Govemnient has already incurred an expense of about t >001) in excess of aul hority by aeeepf inn I In' services of nev.- volmitoer corps, and it is m:l nr.il that Ministers should w i'h lo old ain (hi iliaiuentary ranelion hefore pi oem'ding 1 iii'llier. fu e.'nniinm parlance, “(be I;tie bad to be drawn somewhere," and it is Hie casual mi tort nne of .M.-ederlon and Eketahuna not any demerit. of their-, nr slight oil the part of the Hoi eminent:-■ that has led lo I heir laudable oil ecu being declined.