A Doubtful Luxury.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 4952, 18 April 1891, Page 4

A Doubtful Luxury.

Mr CoiuouMinner Kerr, in a can; wlicro » Volunteer was sued by his colonel to recover the sxrai of LI I2s Od. let fall the " obiter dictum " that the lxe*t pemon to decide whether » Volunteer were or were i not '"cfttritifit" would Iks a solicitor. This ; iiacticnlar Volunteer belonged to the 2-lth Middlesex Regiment. and forasmuch as he Kill failed to earn the fJovemtncnt grant of thirty shilling allowed f"r each erti»rtanC. and had further failed to pay his yearly subneription. the corjM «im by that amount the |*>«rer: hence ; hi* conceived the happy thought I eh*? ca*h by pmcesa <>f law. lit thU endeavor he counted without the fcattiffi »>f the City of London Cittrf. w h<> declined to receive the ser-Sfmvjit-major"* statement that defendant ; hat I not attended a «<in;jle drill throughout ; the year a* <»ueluMV>> evidence of military ! iiH'tftKtvncy. "!>'» I understand that the I Voluntrrr* have t»» f>.-»y t«>r terving their ! c»»ntc; f' *»l«ot Mr Kerr, in natural ' astonishment. Hitch, it apjvearn. i* the rt.pjiivlliti'4 fact. and one not jartieulnrly creditable to the EnglUfi nation.