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New Zealand Times, Volume LXXIV, Issue 4978, 30 May 1903, Page 1 (Supplement)

| With -reference to the length of time '. a soldier has to wait before ho can find j his way from tho ranks to a commission, ■ tho “Regiment” says:—Sir Hector Macdonald, whose career was comparatively [ meteoric, was 10 years before ho got his commission, and even at 50 was no more than a full colonel. Brigadier- ! General Hamilton, to mention another well-known man, was only five years in tho ranks; but, then, be had friends, ; and Colonel Stackpolc, who had none, ' was eight years before ho got his com- ■ mission. Colonel Eustace Knox, on tho other hand, won' his way up in thro© ' years and a half; and Lieutenanti Colonel Peyton, who enlisted in the . regiment—7th Dragoon Guards, which ■ his father had formerly commanded — . got a commission in two years; not that there was any question of his efficiency, for ho was given the adjutancy . almost at once, and was specially selected for the Egyptian army by Lord Kitchener. To mention another instance, Colonel Egerton served six , years in the ranks, and was 31 before ho got his commission. Seventeen years later he was. colonel of a West , Indian regiment.” It is probable that ere long half-ar dozen American companies will be tonring the Commonwealth and New Zealand. 1 They will include musical comedy and vaudeville, comedy and dramas